Ulster Folk Museum Folklife Questionnaires
- Reference code
- FOL.QUES
- Level of description
- Fonds
- Title
- Ulster Folk Museum Folklife Questionnaires
- Scope and content
- A series of questionnaires prepared by Ulster Folk Museum, circulated from 1961 to 1989, to respondents throughout all nine Ulster counties. Questions concerned many aspects of the history of the local way of life including hand-loom weaving; folk drama; dialect; descriptions of persons and animals; wedding customs, haymaking; straw ropes; milk; ether-drinking; calendar customs; traps and snares; the hearth; articles of folklore; omens and luck; cures and charms; spades and spadework; the last sheaf; scotch mills and flax-scutching; traditional songs; working clothes; moving about the country; word checklists; bread; the May queen; farming; team sports; skipping games; seasonal variation in the diet; family life surveys; healing; migrant labour; farmyard manures; the landlord system; Christmas celebrations; bonfires; field boundaries; edible fats; the Danes in Ireland; spinning wheels. The archive is divided by subject, questions asked and respondent answers.
- Contents
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- Questions about BL/BO and Miscellaneous Words
- Questions about Bonfires
- Questions about Bread
- Questions about Calendar Customs (New Year and St Brigid's Eve and Day)
- Questions about Calendar Customs (The Last Sheaf)
- Questions about Certain Articles of Furniture
- Questions about Check-List of B-words (3)
- Questions about Check-Lists of B Words (1)
- Questions about Christmas Celebrations
- Questions about Clothing
- Questions about Cures and Charms
- Questions about Dancing
- Questions about Dialect Word (List A)
- Questions about Dialect Words and Pronunciation
- Questions about Edible Fats in Europe
- Questions about Ether Drinking
- Questions about Farm Buildings
- Questions about Farming
- Questions about Farmyard Manures
- Questions about Field Boundaries
- Questions about Folk Drama (Mummers or Christmas Rhymers)
- Questions about Funeral Customs
- Questions about Handloom Weaving
- Questions about Hay Making
- Questions about Healing
- Questions about Hiring Fairs (1)
- Questions about Hiring Fairs (2)
- Questions about Linguistic Survey Ireland (P. L. Henry) Rural Lexical Questionnaire
- Questions about Matchmaking, Elopement and Dowries
- Questions about May Eve and May Day
- Questions about Milk
- Questions about Moving about the Country
- Questions about Omens and Luck
- Questions about Persons and Animals
- Questions about Quilting
- Questions about Scutch Mills and Flax Scutching
- Questions about Seasonal Variation in Diet
- Questions about Skipping Games
- Questions about Spades and Spadework
- Questions about Spinning Wheels
- Questions about Straw Ropes
- Questions about Team Sports
- Questions about Thatched and Traditional Houses
- Questions about the Danes in Ireland
- Questions about The Harvest Supper
- Questions about The Landlord System
- Questions about The May Queen
- Questions about The Smith
- Questions about Traditional Singers and Instrumentalists
- Questions about Traditional Songs
- Questions about Traps and Snares
- Questions about Wedding Customs
- Questions about Wedding Customs
- Questions about Witch Stones
- Questions about Word Check-List B-words and Miscellaneous
- Questions about Work Away From Home (1) Migrant Labour
- Questions about Work Away From Home (2) Migrant Labour
- Questions about Working Clothes
- Questions on the Hearth