QUB Folklore Project Interview Transcripts

Reference code: HOYFM.ACL2024.28
Level of description: Fonds
Title: QUB Folklore Project Interview Transcripts
Scope and content: Various materials from the Folklore Project at Queen’s University Belfast in 1994–95 involving the Department of Gaelic Studies and tutor Dr Fionnuala Williams. The programme required that students interview older people about various topics of folklore in their lives as a part of their coursework. The collection gives great insight into folklore across Ulster and beyond in the early 20th century. Contents: a tape transcript from Geraldine T. Shannon interviewing Mrs. Nan Molloy Derrymagone of Moy County Armagh; subjects include Verna Railway Station, Ceilidhes; a typescript on Fairylore from Donegal and Belfast by D. Bossence, containing photographs of a ‘fairy shoe’; an interview transcript of Paddy O’Hanlon by Paul Rainey, concerning his profession of Diener, Halloween, old remedies, and burial practices; a handwritten interview transcript with Seamus McDermott about clay pipes (1995); an interview with Eileen Hamilton concerning relations and lineage (1993); a pipe makers Belfast directory from 1812–1937; drawings of the pipes; a transcript of an interview with Simon Marshall concerning Halloween pranks, ghost stories, Banshees, etc. (1994); an interview transcript with Teresa McCaffery concerning fairy trees, superstitions, ceilis, rituals of flower collection (1994); interview transcript of Edmond Mowat concerning street games, memories of Enniskillen, American soldiers stationed in world war two, and skipping rhymes (Mar. 1995); interview transcript of Teresa Slavin concerning supernatural occurrences and her life; Declan Forde, a Bardic Poet? Interview in 1994; interview transcript with Peter Hughes concerning cures for mumps in the 1940s (1994); an interview transcript with Mr. Terry Lilley concerning wakes with a photograph (1994); an interview transcript with Mrs. Halog Lloyd, remembering her childhood, contains a photograph affixed (Apr. 1995); ‘The girls go to the Ceili’ a interview story from Co. Donegal’ by Athanass Kontos (1993); material from Lorraine Taylor, including: an interview transcript with her and Jackie Boyce, maps, and miscellaneous documents (1995); an interview transcript with two women, Kathleen Reilly and Maureen Raffery, on folk cures (1995); a draft of a note submitted to Ulster Folklife (1995); handwritten interview transcript, ‘The Way We Used to Live,’ with Geraldine McCann, also containing images; interview transcript with Mrs. Annie Agnew about luck, the Devil, and priestly power against the supernatural; The Strawboys of Derrylin, an interview transcript and photocopied newspaper clippings concerning Pat Cassidy (1990s); interview transcript on ‘death customs’ with James McDermott; interview with Miss Mary Ethna Croskery (1994); a booklet project on ‘Animal Medicine’ by Jennifer Johnston (1995); The Games We Used to Play an interview with Margery; Half-Door Dancing, Conversation with Johnny McGee with a map of Enniskillen (1995); interview transcript with Priscilla Johnston; ‘Interview with Tony Mulvenna about customs, practices and some stories of interest in and around a Glenarm farm’ by Ciara Nelson; handwritten interview transcript with Father Paddy O’Donnell on Aran Island lore and the Belfast blitz; prayer objects from Lough Derg (dated 1944); handwritten folklore project on Harvest, and social customs (1995).