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As of late, I’ve noticed the same fox walking by where I live each night. As I watched him go by, it brought me back to something, or rather someone, I had come across while creating an index for the Urban Folklore Project, as part of my work in the National Folklore Collection. The Urban Folklore Project (UFP), was a project undertaken in the late 1970s and early 80s which f...


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(Cur L 30) Ink and crayon drawing at the head of the letter by A. E. 1867-1935

As it is nearing the end of my fifth month here in Special Collections, I have come across...


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As referenced in a past blogpost on the coming of spring, a folk belief found in Ireland explains that catching sight of the first lamb of the new year will bring luck if the


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Following the Easter Rising in 1916, Éamon de Valera was imprisoned first, in Mountjoy jail and then, following the commutation of his death sentence, in four English prisons — Dartmoor, Lewes, Maidstone, and Pentonville. He was released under the general amnesty i...


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