Ulster Folk and Transport Museum Folklife questionnaires

Reference code

HOYFM.ACL2023.38

Level of description

Fonds

Title

Ulster Folk and Transport Museum Folklife questionnaires

Scope and content

A series of questionnaires prepared by Ulster Folk Museum and circulated on a regular basis from the museum to respondents throughout all nine of the 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.

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