Alan Gailey (1935-2013) was the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum’s Assistant Keeper, eventual director, and editor for the journal Ulster Folklife in the late 20th century. He contributed immensely to the academic study of Irish vernacular buildings. Collection of notebooks, handwritten articles, offprints and copies of publications by Gailey 1959-2000, texts on Mummers plays and Christmas rhymers, Ulster poets and local life, handwritten fieldnotes 1960-1983, commonplace books, notebooks and folk drama correspondence, working papers, 1980s notes on Trinity College Library Collis Surveys, notebook on Ancient Laws of Ireland, notebook on census returns re: housing 1841 & 1851, with data re: 1821 & 1831, newspaper cuttings, copy of Pat Wallace paper, A Viking Dublin Perspective on Irish Vernacular Architecture, folk play atlas and notes. Folk research press clippings. Radio interview transcript Sam Hanna Bell and Gailey discussing Irish hearts and baking traditions, whin? and nettles, light in the home, traditional building materials and the folklore of the dwelling. Various magazines and books on buildings; Greater Belfast Industrial Survey, Part 1 (1988); a large paper: Invisible Trees in the Realm of Prehistory? (1979); ‘Traditional Homes’ August 1987 issue; various papers on traditional house types (1970s); miscellaneous brochures on traditional housing and museums; photographs of stone work (1970s); a visualisation map booklet of Ireland’s (Ulster’s) various traditional houses; letter correspondence with universities, i.e., Glasgow, Manchester, and Pittsburgh, USA, as well as the English Royal Commission for Historical Monuments, Walker and Brown Architects, the Irish Department on Folklore, and other academics surrounding folk/traditional housing, architecture, anthropology, and other subjects (1970s–1980s); correspondence with the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Wales and subsequent maps (1980); Belfast Telegraph, ‘Ideal Home’ implement (1999 issue); a booklet of listings from the Guildhall Library, Derry/ Londonderry; photocopies of the 1738 list of tenants in the city of Londonderry with correspondence (1980); photocopied material on a general report on the ‘Estate of Drumbanagher’ from 1821; miscellaneous newspaper photocopied; an Ormeau Bakery booklet; a Folk Atlas for Use in Ulster Schools first draft (1969); ‘Ethnological Mapping in Ireland’ (1974); various maps of Ireland; documents on ‘the poor inquiry,’ notes, maps, etc.; notes on vernacular housing; housing census analyse with notes, diagrams, graphs and lists from the 1850s as noted (1970s likely).
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