Irish Customs and Beliefs

Kevin Danaher

Mercier Press, Limited, Apr 30, 2004 - History - 126 pages

'Irish Customs and Beliefs' is a beautiful series of gentle stories which explore the beliefs and customs of the old Irish.

About the author

Kevin Danaher was born in Athea County Limerick in 1915 and educated at University College Dublin and the universities of Berlin and Leipzig. After service as a captain in the Irish army during the Emergency, he became a full-time ethnologist with the Irish Folklore Commission (later the Department of Irish Folklore in University College Dublin). He was as fine a writer as he was a folklorist and his many works include The Year in Ireland (1972) and Irish Country Households (1975, reissued 1999). His research provided the basis for the Folk Park at Bunratty, county Limerick.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Irish Customs and Beliefs
• Author: Kevin Danaher
• Publisher: Mercier Press, Limited, 2004
• ISBN: 1856354423, 9781856354424
• Length: 126 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / Ireland; Social Science / Folklore & Mythology