Patricia Lysaght

Biographic Data

ID336917
NAMEPatricia Lysaght
GIVEN NAMESPatricia
FAMILY NAMELysaght
SIGNATURELYSAGHT P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College Dublin
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS50
WORKS AS AUTHOR35
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX4

  • Collecting the Folklore of Ireland

    Patricia LysaghtARTICLEFolklore2021References: 3

    Two years after its establishment in 1935 with the remit to ‘collect, preserve and publish’ the folklore of Ireland, the Irish Folklore Commission (Coimisiun Bealoideasa Eireann) (1935–70) organized a major collecting scheme involving the senior pupils and their teachers in the national (primary) schools in Ireland. The project, conducted during the years 1937–38, was very ambitious in both scope and objectives, and was also immensely productive.…

  • An Artist on Inis Oírr and Inis Meáin

    Patricia LysaghtARTICLEFolklore2020References: 3

    Although the main emphasis of the work of the Irish Folklore Commission throughout the thirty-five years of its existence (1935–70) was on verbal tradition, it also sought, from the middle of the 1930s, to document the material culture of rural Ireland. While this work was carried out mainly by a staff member, the Commission also, in the late 1940s and 1950s, employed an artist, Simon Coleman RHA, to undertake fieldwork for short periods of time …

  • From ‘Collect the Fragments …’ to ‘Memory of the World’—Collecting the Folklore of Ireland 1927–70

    Patricia LysaghtARTICLEFolklore2019

    Towards the end of the 1920s the Folklore of Ireland Society (1927), a voluntary cultural organization, was set up with the aim of collecting, preserving, and publishing the folklore of Ireland. In the 1930s, two state-funded organizations with a largely similar aim were established, and it was the Collection, built up over a period of thirty-five years (1935–70), of the second of these, the Irish Folklore Commission, that was inscribed into the …

  • From the British Museum to the Great Blasket

    Patricia LysaghtARTICLEFolklore2017References: 2

    This lecture examines Robin Flower’s engagement with the Irish language, with Irish literature, and especially with the oral traditions of the Great Blasket Island, Co. Kerry, Ireland, commencing in 1910 and continuing for more than three decades. He was taught modern Irish by the Blasket Islander, Tomás Ó Criomhthain, and, during his several visits to the Great Blasket, he collected folklore from many of the Islanders, including the noted storyt…

  • Newgrange and the Bend of the Boyne

    Patricia Lysaght, Geraldine StoutARTICLEBéaloideas2004

    The first off-shoot of the internationally successful Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape, Newgrange and the Bend of the Boyne is the exploration of an outstanding archaeological landscape centred on Newgrange Passage Tomb and its greater environs. In ancient times it was called the Brugh na Boinne. Today this area is designated as a World Heritage site and is Ireland's first protected Archaeological Park. Its rich fertile soils and south facing s…

  • 'Taste Kerrygold, Experience Ireland'

    Patricia LysaghtARTICLEBéaloideas2004

  • Changing Tastes. Food Culture and the Processes of Industrialization

    Ralf Meyer, Patricia Lysaght et al.ARTICLEBéaloideas2004

  • Hospitality at wakes and funerals in Ireland from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century

    Patricia LysaghtARTICLEFolklore2003Cited by: 5References: 2

    Several aspects of mortuary customs in Ireland have already been studied in detail. This paper focuses on the role of hospitality on the occasion of death from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. Based on a variety of written records, it discusses the attitudes of both lay and clerical commentators—officials, travellers and writers on the one hand, and the clergy on the other—to the provision of hospitality, particularly before the interme…

  • Food from Nature

    Méadhbh Ní Ch Piskorski, Patricia LysaghtARTICLEBéaloideas2002

  • Shore Food Use in West County Clare

    Patricia LysaghtARTICLEBéaloideas2002

  • Kevin Danaher (Caoimhin O Danachair), 1913-2002

    Patricia LysaghtARTICLEFolklore2002

    Kevin Danaher was born in Athea (Ath an tSleibhe), county Limerick, Ireland, on 30 January 1913, where his father was a schoolmaster. He received his primary education locally and his secondary education at Mungret College, in his home county. He undertook undergraduate studies at University College Dublin and was conferred with a Bachelor of Arts Degree (subjects of Irish and Latin) by The National University of Ireland in 1936. He obtained a Hi…

  • Family and Community in Ireland

    Patricia Lysaght, Conrad M Arensberg et al.ARTICLEBéaloideas2002Cited by: 17

  • St. Joseph's Well, Dough/Annagh, Parish of Kilmurry Ibrickane, County Clare

    Patricia LysaghtARTICLEBéaloideas2001

  • Islanders and Water-Dwellers

    Terry Gunnell, Patricia Lysaght et al.ARTICLEBéaloideas2000

  • Attitudes to the Rosary and Its Performance in Donegal in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    Patricia LysaghtARTICLEBéaloideas1998

  • A Pocket Book of the Banshee

    Sylvie Muller, Patricia LysaghtARTICLEBéaloideas1998

  • Sean O Suilleabhain (1903-1996) and the Irish Folklore Commission

    Open AccessPatricia LysaghtARTICLEWestern Folklore1998

    Sean O Suilleabhain (Sean O'Sullivan) was born in the townland of Doire an Locha (Derrylough) about ten miles southwest of the town of Kenmare, in the parish of Tuosist, in south County Kerry, Ireland, on the 30th of November 1903, and he died in Dublin on the 12th of December 1996.1 He was the archivist of Coimisiun Bealoideasa Eireann (The Irish Folklore Commission) for the duration of its existence (1935-1971), and of its successor, the Depart…

  • Caoineadh os Cionn Coirp

    Patricia LysaghtARTICLEFolklore1997Cited by: 14References: 4

    As poetry performed at crucial turning points in life, lamentation has been a central element of the culture of women in most societies. In Ireland the custom of public improvised poetic lamentation over deceased persons by women is attested from ancient times and persisted into the twentieth century in some parts. This paper gives a brief survey of the lament tradition in Ireland, taking into account evidence from diverse periods and sources, bo…

  • Perspectives on Women during the Great Irish Famine from the Oral Tradition

    Patricia LysaghtARTICLEBéaloideas1996

  • Éigse. A Journal of Irish Studies

    Patricia Lysaght, Pádraig A BreatnachARTICLEBéaloideas1992

    Patricia Lysaght, Éigse. A Journal of Irish Studies, Béaloideas, Iml. 60/61, Finscealta Agus Litriocht: Paipeir a cuireadh I lathair ag an Siompoisiam Nordach-Ceiltech / Legends and Fiction: Papers Presented at the Nordic-Celtic Legend Symposium (1992/1993), pp. 339-344

  • Malairt Beatha

    Patricia Lysaght, Pádraig TyersARTICLEBéaloideas1992

    Patricia Lysaght, Malairt Beatha, Béaloideas, Iml. 60/61, Finscealta Agus Litriocht: Paipeir a cuireadh I lathair ag an Siompoisiam Nordach-Ceiltech / Legends and Fiction: Papers Presented at the Nordic-Celtic Legend Symposium (1992/1993), pp. 312-316

  • The Banshee's Comb (MLSIT 4026)

    Patricia LysaghtARTICLEBéaloideas1991

    Patricia Lysaght, The Banshee's Comb (MLSIT 4026): The Role of Tellers and Audiences in the Shaping of Redactions and Variations, Béaloideas, Iml. 59, The Fairy Hill Is on Fire! Proceedings of the Symposium on the Supernatural in Irish and Scottish Migratory Legends (1991), pp. 67-82

  • Éigse. A Journal of Irish Studies

    Patricia Lysaght, Patrick Lysaght et al.ARTICLEBéaloideas1989

  • Éigse

    Patricia Lysaght, Tomás Ó ConcheanainnARTICLEBéaloideas1988

  • The Banshee

    Venetia Newall, Patricia LysaghtARTICLEMan1987Cited by: 14

    The banshee is traditionally in Ireland the female supernatural herald of death. Based on folklore and documentary sources, this work examines the characteristics of the banshee and of the belief in her, and her origin and regional variations. The methods of Scandinavian scholars are adapted to an Irish context, and the author also develops cartographical and other methods of analysis and presentation. From the scientific analysis of the folklore…