Oral tradition (Poetry, Ballads, Drama, Songs)

Reference code: HOYFM.ACL2023.21/15
Level of description: Sub-fonds
Title: Oral tradition (Poetry, Ballads, Drama, Songs)
Scope and content: Essays and collections of folktales, poetry, and folksongs, including popular rhymes, sayings, and proverbs; sheet or broadside ballads; chapbooks; orange or green songbooks; and rhyming weavers and mummers. One lever-arch file contains transcriptions of Belfast-printed chapbooks, including Smyth and Lyons' "The Christmas Rhime," an article by W.H. Patterson in Notes & Queries on Christmas Rhymers, and transcripts of interviews given to Michael J. Murphy and Linda Ballard, among others, on the subject of mummers and mumming, often in response to UFTM questionnaires.