Committee on Ulster Folklife and Traditions Collectors Books

Reference code: FOL.COLL
Level of description: Fonds
Title: Committee on Ulster Folklife and Traditions Collectors Books
Scope and content: 'These fast-perishing traditions of ours must be recorded before they disappear from the earth as if they had never been.’ The mission outlined by the Committee on Ulster Folklife and Traditions in 1955 was undertaken initially by volunteers around Ulster who documented the disappearing local traditions. The resultant hoard of exercise books of handwritten notes and illustrations from seven counties and many schools comprised much of the core research material underpinning early volumes of Ulster Folklife journal and the emerging Ulster Folk Museum over the next decade. These books contain fascinating primary accounts on topics including:

Agriculture, Ancient monuments, Animals and Insects, Ballad singers, Banshees, Barrel organ, Baskets, Begging, Beliefs, Blacksmiths, Bleach greens, Borrowing Days, Butter Making, Charity, Charm hole with stone, Cheese, Children’s games, Children’s rhymes, Christian names, Christmas, Churches, Clothing, Coal, Communications, Conduct, Courtship, Crafts and Trades, Cures and charms, Customs, Dances, Dancing, Death, Devil, District, Domestic Life, Drapery and dressmaking, Dulse, Easter, Economy, Education, Emigration and movement, Entertainment, Fairies, witches, fairy thorns, Fairs and markets, Family names, Famine, Festivals, Fiddlers, Fishing, Folklore, Food and Drink, Gambling, Games, Gatherings at cross roads, Ghosts, Hallowe’en, Harvest, Haunted House, Hiring, Historical and Local Tradition, Holidays, Homemade food, Housekeeping, Housing, Hunting, Illness and Health, Landlords, Lighting, Local Geography, Local phrases and words, Local Place-names, Magic and Magical Powers, Marriage, May Day, May Eve, Measurements, Milk sellers, Mills, Minstrel troupes,, Music, Musical instruments and musicians, Natural features, Nicknames, Paper mills, Peddlers and Tramps, Plant names, Poetry, Rhymes and Riddles, Pottery, Quiltings and quilts, Roads and old roads, Schools, Seahorses and Mermaids, Shipbuilding, Social Life , Songs, Sports and pastimes, St. Patrick, Stories, Street dancers , Street Shows, Sunday Observance , Supernatural Beliefs, Sweets, Table manners & eating customs, Textiles, The Future, Toasting tongs, Towns, Tourism, Transport, Turf Cutting, Types of horse-drawn vehicles, Underground passages, Utensils, spoons and forks, Wake and funeral rituals, War and Conflict, Water and wells, Weather, signs, Weaving, Wedding customs, Wildlife, Work, Xmas Rhymers.