2019/01/02 by Patricia Lysaght · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Archaeology #Asian Culture and Media Studies #Commission #Computer science #Folklore #Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies #History #Ideology #Inscribed figure #Irish #Law #Media studies #Political science #Politics #Publishing #Sociology #State (computer science)
paper · doi:10.1080/0015587x.2018.1553333
openalex publication_date 2019/01/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
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 UNESCO Memory of the World Register in 2017. The ideologies informing the setting up of these organizations, their structures, strategies, achievements, and legacies, are examined in this lecture.