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NOTES
PREFACE
The story of Saint Patrick was built out of tales described by Douglas Hyde,
A Literary History of Ireland
(1967), pp. 116, 383. The scribe’s characterization of the
Tain
as a deception and figment comes as a coda to the text Cecile O’Rahilly provides in
Táin Bó Cúalnge from the Book of Leinster
(Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1970), p. 272. John O’Donovan edited the
Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters
in seven volumes (1854). It was written in Donegal between 1632 and 1636. Geoffrey Keating’s
General History of Ireland
, written between 1620 and 1634, was translated in the eighteenth century by Dermod O’Connor, and in the twentieth century for the Irish Texts Society (1902-1914) by David Comyn and Patrick S. Dinneen.
AT THE END OF A SHORT WINTER’S DAY
This is the night of November 22, 1972. I recorded the stories George Armstrong told the rector on August 14, 1978, and December 18, 1979. John Brodison’s story of the Big Wind can be found in
Passing the Time in Ballymenone
(1982), pp. 45-47. The story of George Armstrong’s return is tale 42 in this collection.
CONNECTIONS
At the heart of this brief discussion is the idea in the currently dominant American definition of folklore, propounded by Dan Ben-Amos, “Toward a Definition of Folklore in Context,” in Américo Paredes and Richard Bauman, eds.,
Toward New Perspectives in Folklore
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1972), pp. 3-15.
TRADITION
For T. Crofton Croker I relied primarily on the memoir written by his son, T. F. Dillon Croker, published in Thomas Wright’s edition of Croker’s
Fairy Legends
(1862), pp. iv–xix. Kevin Danaher added a biographical introduction to the reprint of
Researches in the South of Ireland
(Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1981), pp. v-viii. Richard M. Dorson treats Croker in
The British Folklorists
(1968), pp. 44-52, and he treats Thomas Keightley on pp. 52-57. Croker’s descriptions of his fieldwork come from a letter he wrote in 1825, quoted in T. F. D. Croker’s memoir,
Fairy Legends
(1862), pp. vi–vii. Croker’s account of fairy habitations come from
Researches in the South of Ireland
, p. 80. Keightley’s “Leprechaun in the Garden” is in
The Fairy Mythology
(1850), pp. 376–378. Croker’s “Seeing Is Believing” is in
Fairy Legends
(1862), pp. 85–88. Samuel Lover tells of telling his sketches orally in
Legends and Stories of Ireland
(1834 [1831]), pp. viii-ix. His description of Paddy the Sport comes from the same book, pp. 205, and 212. Paddy’s tale appears as tale 37 in this collection. Croker’s stories “The Crookened Back” and “The Capture of Bridget Pursell” both appear in this collection: tales 87 and 58.
