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Blúiríní Béaloidis Folklore Podcast

Bluiríní Béaloidis is the podcast from The National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin, and is a platform to explore Irish and wider European folk tradition across an array of subject area... Read more

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Blúiríní Béaloidis 39 - Bees In Tradition (with Tiernan Gaffney)

Blúiríní Béaloidis 39 - Bees In Tradition (with Tiernan Gaffney)

Bees have been cultivated in Ireland since early times. Of value for their wax and honey, there were also believed to be... Read more

9 May 2023

59mins

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Blúiríní Béaloidis 38: Stones Of Strength In Irish Tradition (with David Keohan)

Blúiríní Béaloidis 38: Stones Of Strength In Irish Tradition (with David Keohan)

Lying in fields and ditches, at the edge of old and overgrown graveyards and in lonesome places all over Ireland rest fo... Read more

6 Dec 2022

1hr 24mins

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Blúiríní Béaloidis 37: Peig Sayers (with Dr. Éilís Ní Dhuibhne & Dr. Pádraig Ó Héalaí)

Blúiríní Béaloidis 37: Peig Sayers (with Dr. Éilís Ní Dhuibhne & Dr. Pádraig Ó Héalaí)

"Long as the day is, night comes, and alas, the night is coming for me too... Someone else will have pastime out of my w... Read more

7 Jul 2022

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Blúiríní Béaloidis 36: The Travellers (with David Joyce & Áine Furey)

Blúiríní Béaloidis 36: The Travellers (with David Joyce & Áine Furey)

Irish Travellers, known in their own language as Mincéirs or Pavees and in Irish called ‘An Lucht Siúil or, ‘The Walking... Read more

24 Jun 2022

1hr 44mins

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Blúiríní Béaloidis 35 - The Civil War (with Dr. Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh)

Blúiríní Béaloidis 35 - The Civil War (with Dr. Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh)

The Civil War was a schismatic moment in Irish history, and the fault lines it left split families, tore apart communiti... Read more

24 May 2022

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Blúiríní Béaloidis 34 - The War Of Independence (with Ailbe Van Der Heide)

Blúiríní Béaloidis 34 - The War Of Independence (with Ailbe Van Der Heide)

The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed on the 6th of December 1921, bringing an end to the 1919-1921 Irish War of Independenc... Read more

4 Dec 2021

1hr 6mins

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Blúiríní Béaloidis 33 - Death (with David McGowan)

Blúiríní Béaloidis 33 - Death (with David McGowan)

In life, there is much which seems uncertain to us. Concerning death however, there can be no doubt. It was an honour to... Read more

19 Nov 2021

1hr 17mins

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Blúiríní Béaloidis 32 - Mushrooms In Tradition

Blúiríní Béaloidis 32 - Mushrooms In Tradition

With the coming of the cool wet weather of autumn, life begins to turn inward again . The fields lie fallow and bare, fl... Read more

30 Oct 2021

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Blúiríní Béaloidis 31 - The Púca (with Aidan Harte)

Blúiríní Béaloidis 31 - The Púca (with Aidan Harte)

For this episode of Blúiríní I am joined by sculptor Aidan Harte, whose recent work 'The Púca of Ennistymon' was commiss... Read more

18 Aug 2021

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Blúiríní Béaloidis 30 - The Stray Sod

Blúiríní Béaloidis 30 - The Stray Sod

There are numerous accounts in tradition of wayfarers who suffer fits of confusion and disorientation while traversing t... Read more

9 Apr 2021

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