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Séamas Ó Catháin
Séamas Ó Catháin is a noted scholar of Irish folklore. He is an Emeritus Professor at the University College Dublin and was formerly the Head of School of their Irish, Celtic Studies, Folklore and Linguistics Department. From 1996 to 2005 he edited ''Béaloideas, the Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society''. Ó Catháin from 1975, for more than ten summers, visited and recorded the noted seanchaí ("traditional storyteller" or "bearer of the old lore") Seán Ó hEinirí for many years. A lot of material gathered on these visits was published in "Scéalta Chois Cladaigh" ("Stories of Sea and Shore") in 1983 by the Folklore of Ireland Council (Comhairle Bhéaloideas Éireann).Michael Wood (historian), Wood, Michael (1985) In Search of the Trojan War- Episode 3 The Singer of Tales, BBC Awards * Gael Linn Gold Medal, Northern Ireland (1960) * Knight (First Class) of the Order of the Lion of Finland (1986) Selected publications * Catháin, S. Ó. (1992). Hearth-Prayers and Other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University College Dublin
University College Dublin (), commonly referred to as UCD, is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a collegiate university, member institution of the National University of Ireland. With 38,417 students, it is Ireland's largest university. UCD originates in a body founded in 1854, which opened as the Catholic University of Ireland on the feast of Saint Malachy, St. Malachy with John Henry Newman as its first rector; it re-formed in 1880 and chartered in its own right in 1908. The Universities Act, 1997 renamed the constituent university as the "National University of Ireland, Dublin", and a ministerial order of 1998 renamed the institution as "University College Dublin – National University of Ireland, Dublin". Originally located at St Stephen's Green and National Concert Hall, Earlsfort terrace in Dublin's city centre, all faculties later relocated to a campus at Belfield, Dublin, Belfield, six kilometres to the south of the city centre. In 1991, it purchas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
