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Lysaght, Patricia, “From the British Museum to the Great Blasket: Robin Flower and the Western Island”, Folklore: The Journal of the Folklore Society 128:3 (September, 2017): 219–243.

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Lysaght (Patricia)

Article

“From the British Museum to the Great Blasket: Robin Flower and the Western Island”

Periodical

Folklore: The Journal of the Folklore Society 128:3 (2017)

Volume

128

Pages

219–243

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This lecture examines Robin Flower’s engagement with the Irish language, with Irish literature, and especially with the oral traditions of the Great Blasket Island, Co. Kerry, Ireland, commencing in 1910 and continuing for more than three decades. He was taught modern Irish by the Blasket Islander, Tomás Ó Criomhthain, and, during his several visits to the Great Blasket, he collected folklore from many of the Islanders, including the noted storyteller Peig Sayers.

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Ireland 20th century folklore, mythology and popular culture

History, society and culture

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Robin FlowerFlower (Robin)
(d. 1946)
Irish scholar.
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