UCD LIBRARY CULTURAL HERITAGE COLLECTIONS
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With December starting tomorrow, Christmas can be just about seen peaking it's head above the horizon. After such a crazy year and to really get into that Christmas spirit, UCD Cultural Heritage Collections have put together an Uplifting Advent Calendar which can be seen and followed on our Twitter accounts; UCD Archives, Special Collections and …
The number of persons who can tell the seanscéal (mÓ“rchen) is gradually being reduced; and soon but few remain to recount in traditional style this once popular type of folktale. Séamus Ó Duilearga, The Gaelic Storyteller With this thought in mind, much energy was spent in the early days of the Irish Folklore Commission on …