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Fionn folklore database, Online: Government of Ireland, Harvard University, 2023–present.

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Work
Fionn folklore database
Place
Online
Publisher
Government of Ireland • Harvard University
Year
2023–2024
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Abstract (cited)
The Fionn Folklore Database was created to help researchers, singers, storytellers, school pupils, and others discover and navigate the vast corpus of orally collected folklore about these much-loved heroes. The approximately 3,500 stories and songs documented here in four languages—Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, and English—represent the most modern aspect of a continuously renewing oral tradition that developed alongside, and in regular interaction with, medieval and early modern Fenian literature. Collected between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries, and immensely popular across Ireland, Gaelic Scotland, the Isle of Man, and diasporic communities in North America and elsewhere, folklore about Fionn and the Fianna has historically occupied a place of prestige within Gaelic culture that can scarcely be overstated. Indeed, it is one of the most important reservoirs of intangible Gaelic cultural heritage in existence.The database not only unites disparate records in archival collections across Ireland, Scotland, England, the Isle of Man, Canada, and the United States, it also provides the first comprehensive classification system for Fenian folklore. For each Story/Song Type we give a general plot summary and a comprehensive list of all versions known to us, whether published or held in institutional archives, and we link to digitised manuscripts and recordings available in external collections. You can also explore information about the people (‘interviewees’) from whom the folklore was collected, their sources, and the collectors. Our map feature lets you see the distribution and density of collected material geographically.
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Headings
Finn Cycle folklore, mythology and popular culture
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
June 2023
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