A classic in its field, this charming work by a noted scholar explores traditional Irish customs and activities€”from thatching a roof, churning butter, cultivating and harvesting crops, making pots and pans and building furniture to behavior at weddings, wakes, festivals, and funerals. "For all its learning, the book is popular in the best way, and admirably illustrated. . . ."€”Times Literary Supplement. (London)

Irish Folk Ways

EVANS, E. Estyn

Routledge

This engrossing and charming work by a noted scholar, widely regarded as a classic in its field, explores the vital Irish past, noting the diversity of folk customs and traditional activities in rural Ireland, from early Celtic migrations through centuries of English and Scottish influence, up to the sudden appearance of mechanization. Readers will find here a wealth of observations on country ways and the essentials of Irish life, among them how to thatch a roof, churn butter, cultivate and harvest crops, make pots and pans, build furniture and fences, fish and navigate streams, and much more. Also described are a host of customs associated with weddings, wakes, festivals, funerals, and other aspects of Irish country life. Of this book, the Times Literary Supplement of London said, "For all its learning, [the] book is popular in the best way, and admirably illustrated by [the author’s] own drawings as well as by photographs." Over 400 illustrations enhance a text that will not only be of immense value to students of archaeology and folklore but will also appeal to general readers because of its readable style and accessibility.

Irish Folk Ways (Celtic, Irish)

History

Europe

Dover Publications

The Personality of Ireland: Habitat, Heritage and History (The Wiles Lectures)

The history of Ireland has been conceived in two ways: as the history of the English in Ireland or as the history of Gaelic Ireland, but both kinds have been concerned with personalities and institutions rather than with society as a whole. None of the many histories of Ireland tells us much about the land whose story they purport to record. In this book, Professor Estyn Evans takes a new look at Ireland. For the human geographer, if environment without man is an abstraction, so is society without environment, and history operates and takes its visual form in particular cultural environments. He contends that studies of heritage can assist the documentary historian in reaching a fuller understanding of the distinctive and continuing character of Irish history. Drawing on the findings of geography, he finds evidence for remarkable cultural continuities in this pastoral insular end of the Old World. His illustrations are taken from various historical and archaeological horizons, in particular the megalithic, the early Celtic and early Christian, and from agrarian history, folkways and field observations.

Americas

Cambridge University Press

The history of Ireland has been conceived in two ways: as the history of the English in Ireland or as the history of Gaelic Ireland, but both kinds have been concerned with personalities and institutions rather than with society as a whole. None of the many histories of Ireland tells us much about the land whose story they purport to record. In this book, Professor Estyn Evans takes a new look at Ireland. For the human geographer, if environment without man is an abstraction, so is society without environment, and history operates and takes its visual form in particular cultural environments. He contends that studies of heritage can assist the documentary historian in reaching a fuller understanding of the distinctive and continuing character of Irish history. Drawing on the findings of geography, he finds evidence for remarkable cultural continuities in this pastoral insular end of the Old World. His illustrations are taken from various historical and archaeological horizons, in particular the megalithic, the early Celtic and early Christian, and from agrarian history, folkways and field observations.

Mourne Country

Dundalagan Press

Originally published in 1973 and now in its third edition, this is a classic of modern Irish historical geography. Extensively illustrated with photos, maps, and drawings, it gives a detailed yet panoramic view of Ireland - landscape, antiquities, folk customs. ""One of the most important books of my life"" - Paul Durcan.

The Personality Of Ireland: Habitat, Heritage and History

The Lilliput Press

France: An Introductory Geography

Brown Pr

His work on folklife, his interest in popular and material culture, his inclusiveness and generosity of vision, his latent environmentalism, his holistic rendering of habitat, heritage, and history with its relationship of land to people, and above all the sheer quality of his prose and poetic imagery, all mark Evans as one of the outstanding figures in the field of geographical studies. This broad collection demonstrates to a new generation of readers the enduring qualities of Ireland's most distinctive, and distinguished, cultural historian. Like Lloyd Praeger, Carl Sauer, and Fernand Braudel before him, Estyn Evans (1905-1989) is one of the inspirational figures in the landscape of Irish and European studies. Lucid, witty, innovative, and holistic, these selected writings testify to his enduring relevance in the late twentieth century.

Ireland and the Atlantic Heritage

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Irish Folk Ways

Irish Folk Ways (Celtic, Irish)

The Personality of Ireland: Habitat, Heritage and History (The Wiles Lectures)

The Personality of Ireland: Habitat, Heritage and History (The Wiles Lectures)

Mourne Country

The Personality Of Ireland: Habitat, Heritage and History

France: An Introductory Geography

Ireland and the Atlantic Heritage