The stars of Ballymenone / Henry Glassie ; photography, drawings, and design by the author ; compact disc, Stories and songs of South Fermanagh, Henry Glassie and Doug Boyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glassie, Henry, 1941- author.

Boyd, Doug, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Storytelling.

Folklore and history.

Ballymenone (Northern Ireland)--Social life and customs.

Ballymenone (Northern Ireland).

Ballymenone (Northern Ireland)--History.

Folklore and history--Northern Ireland--Ballymenone.

Storytelling--Northern Ireland--Ballymenone.

Manners and customs.

Northern Ireland--Ballymenone.

Genre:

History.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

592 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

4 3/4 in.

Edition:

New edition.

Other Title:

Title on compact disc: Stories & songs of South Fermanagh

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016.

System Details:

digital

audio file CD audio

Summary:

In the time of the Troubles, when there were bombs in the night and soldiers on the road, Henry Glassie journeyed to the Irish borderland to learn how country people endure. He settled into the farming community of Ballymenone, beside Lough Erne in the County Fermanagh. He asked questions, and he listened. For a decade he heard and recorded the stories and songs in which they outlined their culture, recounted their history, and pictured their world a world which, in their view, was one of love and defeat and uncertainty, demanding faith, bravery, and wit. In his award-winning "Passing the Time in Ballymenone", Henry Glassie set out to write a comprehensive ethnography of the community. Now, after decades of work in Asia, in Turkey and Bangladesh, in India and Japan, Glassie has returned to Ireland, using his skills as an observer, a listener, a writer, in an effort to understand how poor people in rural places suffer and laugh and carry on while history happens. Glassie's task in "The Stars of Ballymenone" is to set the scene, to sketch the backdrop and clear the stage, so that Hugh Nolan and Michael Boyle, Peter Flanagan, Ellen Cutler, and their neighbors can tell their own tale. "The Stars of Ballymenone" is an integrated analysis of the complete repertory of verbal art from a community where storytelling and singing of quality remained a part of daily life. The book includes a CD so the voices of Ballymenone can be heard at last. -- Provide by publisher.

Contents:

1. Remains

Our district of the country (photographs)

2. Ballymenone

3. Fermanagh

4. Northern Ireland

5. Carrying on

6. Stars in the dark

7. Michael Boyle

8. Hugh Nolan

9. Peter Flanagan

10. Dwelling in time

An epic of common life (photographs)

11. The fireside

12. The Ceili

13. Saints

14. Saint Columcille

15. Battles

16. Black Francis

17. Experiences

18. Fairy tales

19. Ghost stories

20. Exploits

21. The gift of wit

22. Tales in the Ceili

23. Public performance

24. The twelfth in the town

25. A night at Swad.

Compact disc. A lovely country. 1. "The Duke of Leinster" / John Joe Maguire (1:10) ; 2. "The Fermanagh song" / Martin Crudden (2:33) ; 3. Saint Patrick on Inishmore / Hugh Nolan (2:52)

A country mystery. 4. "The London lassies" / John Joe Maguire (1:15) ; 5. Fairies and forths / Peter Flanagan (3:17) ; 6. Fairies, forths and warnings / Ellen Cutler (2:27) ; 7. Taken away by the fairies / Peter Flanagan (4:57) ; 8. Inishkeen's on fire / Ellen Cutler (1:49)

A country of conflict. 9. "We guard old Derry's walls / Ellen Cutler (0:18) ; 10. Drums on the twelfth / Enniskillen, 1972 (2:20) ; 11. Rapparees / Hugh Nolan (0.56) ; 12. "The wild rapparee" / Patricia Rooney (2:05) ; 13. "The green volunteers" / Martin Crudden (2:35).

Notes:

"HDCD."

CD: recorded, compiled, and produced by Henry Glassie and Doug Boyd.

Notes to the compact disc (pages 517-557).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 558-583) and index.

Contains:

Stories and songs of South Fermanagh.

ISBN:

9780253022547

0253022541

0253347173

9780253347176

OCLC:

961022053