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Paperback. Zustand: New. "I have run the gauntlet of many borders in my time, but the border I grew up with at home was far and away the most trying," writes Seamas OCathain, Professor Emeritus at University College Dublin and former Director of the National Folklore Collection. Born in Drumquin, County Tyrone, to a family of Catholic business people and farmers, he grew up "a stone's throw" from the border that separates Donegal in the Republic from the six counties of Northern Ireland - "a border policed by little corporals that was the bane of our lives."JUMPING THE BORDER is an engaging account of his experience - as a child and as a young man - in three distinctive cultures, now radically changed. He describes the Tyrone of the 1940s and 1950s where Protestant and Catholic neighbours shared their lives at a personal level, but where institutions were divisive. His father's prosperous business was ruined because of a political event he supported. The schools and the curriculum were dividers of the two communities. The border was a nuisance to everyone. As a post-graduate student in the 1960s, he took up residence in the Donegal Gaeltacht of "Na Cruacha", where "real old Irish" was still spoken. He did a study of the area's place names, and recorded the distinctive music and speech of "Na Cruacha". Shortly afterwards his research took him to the far north of Europe, to Sapmi (known as Lapland), a cultural rather than a political territory which spreads over four countries, and where he immersed himself in the culture and language of the Sami people at a time when their native language and customs were under threat and belittled.Seamas's many international distinctions and awards include: Knight (First Class) of the Order of the Lion of Finland; the Dag Stromback Prize of the Gustavus Adolphus Academy, Uppsala, Sweden; and the Ruth Michaela-Jena Ratcliff Prize, Edinburgh. He is an honorary member of the Finnish Kalevala Society; a member of the Folklore Fellows of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, Helsinki; and a sometime member of the Advisory Board of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen. …

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paperback. Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 280 pages. 9.80x7.05x1.02 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. A near fine copy in the dust wrapper, signed by the author. Signed by Author(s).

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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. A clean unmarked copy in the dust wrapper.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition. 400 pages. 9.50x6.60x1.42 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. xvii, 353 , [4] p ; 26 cm. illustrations ISBN 9780394532240, 9780394746371, 9780679774129, 9780318120560, 0394532244, 0394746376, 0679774122, 0318120569 OCLC 12285572. ; stiff paper wrappers ; Henry Glassie has served as assistant director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he is currently professor of folklore and American civilization ; Contents: Part I: The old story -- The legend of Knockfierna -- Finn and his men bewitched -- The king of Ireland's son -- Part II: Faith -- The baptism of Conor MacNessa -- Saint Patrick -- Saint Patrick on Inishmore -- Saint Patrick and Crom Dubh -- Saint Brigit -- Saint Columcille -- Columcille's coffin -- Saint Kevin -- Saint Finbar -- James Murray and Saint Martin -- The best road to heaven -- The man from Kilmacoliver -- The pious man -- An actual saint -- Old thorns and old priests -- Priests and farming men -- Saved by the priest -- The doom -- The right cure -- Hell and heaven -- The wolf's prophecy -- Part III: Wit -- The three questions -- The farmer's answers -- Half a blanket -- The shadow of the glen -- A hungry hired boy -- The first mirror -- Robin's escape -- Jonathan Swift, dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral -- Daniel O'Connell -- Owen Roe O'Sullivan -- Robert Burns -- Terry the Grunter -- Thomas Moore and the tramp -- John Brodison and the policeman -- A big potato -- The fox and the ranger -- The horse's last drunk -- Hare and hound -- Sleepy Pendoodle -- A medical expert from Lisnaskea -- George Armstrong's return -- The lawyer and the devil -- Coals on the devil's hearth -- Part IV: Mystery -- No man goes beyond his day -- A light tokens the death of Mr. Corrigan -- A clock taken -- The banshee cries for the O'Briens -- The banshee cries for the Boyles -- Experience of the banshee -- Grandfather's ghost -- Terrible ghosts -- The soldier in the haunted house -- Daniel Crowley and the ghosts -- Ghosts along the Arney -- The grave of his fathers -- The coffin -- The capture of Bridget Purcell -- Taken -- How the shoemaker saved his wife -- The mountain elf -- Inishkeen's on fire -- The blood of Adam -- We had one of them in the house for a while -- Fairy property -- The blacksmith of Bedlam and the fairy host -- Fairy forths -- Gortdonaghy forth -- The fairies ride from Gortdonaghy to Drumane -- Lanty's new house -- Jack and the Cluricaune -- Bridget and the Lurikeen -- Fairy tales -- The fairy shilling -- The breaking of the forth -- Dreams of gold -- The castle's treasure -- The air is full of them -- The feet water -- The fairy rabbit and the blessed earth of Tory -- The cats' judgment -- Never ask a cat a question -- Cats are queer articles -- Tom Moore and the seal woman -- The swine of the gods -- A pig on the road from Gort -- The crookened back -- Maurice Griffin the fairy doctor -- Biddy Early -- The black art -- Magical theft -- Paudyeen O'Kelly and the weasel -- One queer experience -- Many a one saw what we saw -- Part V: History -- The old times in Ireland -- The bath of the white cows -- The Battle of the Ford of Biscuits -- Cromwell -- Cromwell's Bible -- Patrick Sarsfield -- Sarsfield surrenders and Rory takes to the hills -- Black Francis -- Shan Bernagh -- Willie Brennan -- Wicklow in the rising of 1798 -- The famine -- Victory in the time of famine -- Ruined by poetry -- Part VI: Fireside tales -- The birth of Finn MacCumhail -- The high king of Lochlann and the Fenians of Erin -- Usheen's return to Ireland -- Fair, brown, and trembling -- The corpse watchers -- A widow's son -- Jack and Bill -- The mule -- The king of Ireland's son -- Huddon and Duddon and Donald O'Leary -- The three wishes -- Willy the Wisp -- The buideach, the tinker, and the black donkey -- The man who had no story ; VG. Book.…

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Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 180 pages. 180x110mm. Original pictorial card covers. *A signed, inscribed copy from the editor.* This book, which deserved a larger and more robust format than this small 'perfect' bound paperback, is based on a series of radio broadcasts. Texts discussed include: Mason - The Islands of Ireland; Sayers - Peig; White - The Godstone and the Blackymor; Ó Criomhthain - An tÓileánach; O'Flaherty - Skerrett; O'Sullivan - Fiche Bliain ag Fás; Mullen - Hero Breed; Ó Síocháin - Seanchas Chléire; Ó Colm - Toraigh na dTonn; Campbell - Sea Wrack; O'Donnell - Islanders; McNally - Achill; Pochin Mould - Valentia; Leslie - Saint Patrick's Purgatory. A near fine copy without any library stamps, inscriptions, or other markings. Images available on request. Signed by Author(s).…