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... tell folk - tales ( märchen ) in both Irish and English , but it was quite evident that they told them much better in the Irish language in which they first had heard them . There were no professional story - tellers in modern times ...
... tell folk - tales ( märchen ) in both Irish and English , but it was quite evident that they told them much better in the Irish language in which they first had heard them . There were no professional story - tellers in modern times ...
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... tell a story he would be about forty years of age . Wherever there was a wake , it was there he would surely be . They used to set him to tell a story to shorten the night . I saw him once for two nights running telling stories at the ...
... tell a story he would be about forty years of age . Wherever there was a wake , it was there he would surely be . They used to set him to tell a story to shorten the night . I saw him once for two nights running telling stories at the ...
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... telling did not really start until Oidhche Shamhna ( 31 October ) . Ó Heochaidh points out that the old story - tellers seemed to be loath to tell folk - tales in their own homes , and would rather go to a toigh áirneáil than tell their ...
... telling did not really start until Oidhche Shamhna ( 31 October ) . Ó Heochaidh points out that the old story - tellers seemed to be loath to tell folk - tales in their own homes , and would rather go to a toigh áirneáil than tell their ...
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LIST OF FELLOWS | 9 |
CORRESPONDING FELLOWS 1945 | 14 |
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir John Clapham | 14 |
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