2008 Press Releases
Professor Gearóid Ó Crualaoich to deliver the Annual Kevin Danaher Lecture
29.01.2008
Gender, festivals, rituals and calendar customs will be the topics of the third annual Kevin Danaher Lecture/Léacht Chaoimhín Uí Dhanachair that will be delivered by UCC professor of folklore and ethnology Gearóid Ó Crualaoich.
29.01.2008
Gender, festivals, rituals and calendar customs will be the topics of the third annual Kevin Danaher Lecture/Léacht Chaoimhín Uí Dhanachair that will be delivered by UCC professor of folklore and ethnology Gearóid Ó Crualaoich.
'Gender Aspects of Traditional Calendar in Ireland' is the promising title for the annual memorial lecture that pays tribute to one of Ireland's most eminent folklorists, Dr Caoimhín Ó Danachair.
Traditional aspects of calendar custom and festival were one of Ó Danachair's special interests and this year's lecture will offer new insights not alone into the role of the female and women in general in folklore but also in festive culture.
Professor Ó Crualaoich, author of the masterful work on the expressions of femininity in Irish folklore, The Book of the Cailleach: Stories of the Wise-Woman Healer published by UCC press in 2003, is a founder and former Head of Roinn an Bhéaloidis, the Department of Folklore and Ethnology in UCC. 'We are delighted with this opportunity to hear Professor Ó Crualaoich lecture in UCC again" said Dr Stiofán Ó Cadhla, Head of Department. "He epitomises the same learned human spirit that Ó Danachair did. He broadcasts, lectures, writes and researches on his favourite subject in a scholarly as well as popular fashion", he said.
Dr Ó Danachair worked in both the Irish and English languages. The lecture will be delivered at 7.00pm on Tuesday, February 5th, in the Council Room, North Wing, UCC. Members of the public are invited to attend and admission is free. Its proximity to St Brighid's Day is an effort to recognise Danaher's pioneering work in outlining calendar customs. Ó Cadhla says that "in the foreword to In Ireland Long Ago (Cork: Mercier Press, 1962) Danaher describes the road that ran across the front of his home as bearing 'the whole stream of a community's life', this is something he himself also did."
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Traditional aspects of calendar custom and festival were one of Ó Danachair's special interests and this year's lecture will offer new insights not alone into the role of the female and women in general in folklore but also in festive culture.
Professor Ó Crualaoich, author of the masterful work on the expressions of femininity in Irish folklore, The Book of the Cailleach: Stories of the Wise-Woman Healer published by UCC press in 2003, is a founder and former Head of Roinn an Bhéaloidis, the Department of Folklore and Ethnology in UCC. 'We are delighted with this opportunity to hear Professor Ó Crualaoich lecture in UCC again" said Dr Stiofán Ó Cadhla, Head of Department. "He epitomises the same learned human spirit that Ó Danachair did. He broadcasts, lectures, writes and researches on his favourite subject in a scholarly as well as popular fashion", he said.
Dr Ó Danachair worked in both the Irish and English languages. The lecture will be delivered at 7.00pm on Tuesday, February 5th, in the Council Room, North Wing, UCC. Members of the public are invited to attend and admission is free. Its proximity to St Brighid's Day is an effort to recognise Danaher's pioneering work in outlining calendar customs. Ó Cadhla says that "in the foreword to In Ireland Long Ago (Cork: Mercier Press, 1962) Danaher describes the road that ran across the front of his home as bearing 'the whole stream of a community's life', this is something he himself also did."
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