Irish Curses

Author : Nicholas Nigro
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781612834146

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Irish Curses, Blessings, and Toasts by Nicholas Nigro Pdf

The Irish are renowned for their unrivaled capacity to spin a yarn and tell a story. They have a singular gift for gab and delight in the art of conversation. Being Irish means finding both humor and insight on life’s roller coaster ride of highs and lows. Indeed, the Irish narrative is chock-full of wit, fellowship, and merriment, but it is also deeply rooted in a revolutionary past of severe hardship. This volume is an Irish treasure trove of words and sentiments for any and all occasions that both entertains and informs. Here are over 500 quotes that fall into the following categories: Blessings and Toasts; Drinking, Humorous, and Specialty Toasts; Saint Patrick, Saint Brigid, and Special Prayers, Curses, Proverbs, and Sayings; Poetry and Rhymes; He Said, She Said; and Ballads and Songs.

Author : Patrick C. Power
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 0853429154

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The Book of Irish Curses by Patrick C. Power Pdf

Author : Patrick C. Power
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1408893908

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“The” Book of Irish Curses by Patrick C. Power Pdf

Author : Nina Witoszek,Patrick F. Sheeran
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Death
ISBN : 9042005319

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Talking to the Dead by Nina Witoszek,Patrick F. Sheeran Pdf

Talking to the Dead is an essay on death and its tenacious hold on Irish culture. There are few traditions in which funerary motifs have been so ubiquitous in literature, popular rituals, folk representations, public rhetorics, even constructions of place. There are even fewer cultures in which funerary genres and preoccupations constitute the central thread of continuity. The Irish Theatrum Mortis is not simply an obsession of writers from the bards to Beckett and Heaney. Nor is it confined to contemporary Republican iconography. It is to be found in the pages of the local press, in acts of ritual resistance to unpopular decisions, in the way in which significant public events are narrated and framed. Though the funerary Ireland presented here may well yield to the new, positive self-image of the Celtic Tiger, it is the authors' contention that at the end of the twentieth century the funerary sign continues to define Irish identity. For good and ill, it is the centre that holds.

Author : Sharon Farmer,Barbara H. Rosenwein
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501724060

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Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts by Sharon Farmer,Barbara H. Rosenwein Pdf

A new generation of historians today is borrowing from cultural anthropology, post-modern critical theory, and gender studies to understand the social meanings of medieval religious movements, practices, figures, and cults. In this volume Sharon Farmer and Barbara H. Rosenwein bring together essays—all hitherto unpublished—that combine some of the best of these new approaches with rigorous research and traditional scholarship. Some of these essays re-envision the professionals of religion: the monks and nuns who carried out crucial social functions as mediators between living and dead, repositories for social memory, and loci of vicarious piety. In their religious life these people embodied an image of the society that produced them. Other contributions focus on social categories, usually expressed as dichotomies: male/female, insider/outsider, saint/outcast. Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts is the first book to show the interaction of seemingly antithetical groups of medieval people and the ways in which they were defined by, as well as against, each other. All of the essays, taken together, form a tribute to Lester K. Little, pioneer in the study of religion in medieval society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Blessing and cursing
ISBN : 0717135470

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Irish Curses by Anonim Pdf

Decorated keyrings have long been a favourite with buyers young and old. Now here is a range of attractively priced keyrings with miniature books attached. The books are light-heartedly written and come in four different titles - Irish Jokes, Irish Curses, Irish Facts and Irish Blessings Each book is bound in a clear plastic cover with press stud so that it stays firmly closed whilst not in use. An easy pick up gift for the home and tourist market. A display tree which contains ten copies of each title is available - ISBN 07171 35454.

Author : Thomas Waters
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Magic
ISBN : 9780300221404

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Cursed Britain by Thomas Waters Pdf

The definitive history of how witchcraft and black magic have survived, through the modern era and into the present day Cursed Britain unveils the enduring power of witchcraft, curses and black magic in modern times. Few topics are so secretive or controversial. Yet, whether in the 1800s or the early 2000s, when disasters struck or personal misfortunes mounted, many Britons found themselves believing in things they had previously dismissed - dark supernatural forces. Historian Thomas Waters here explores the lives of cursed or bewitched people, along with the witches and witch-busters who helped and harmed them. Waters takes us on a fascinating journey from Scottish islands to the folklore-rich West Country, from the immense territories of the British Empire to metropolitan London. We learn why magic caters to deep-seated human needs but see how it can also be abused, and discover how witchcraft survives by evolving and changing. Along the way, we examine an array of remarkable beliefs and rituals, from traditional folk magic to diverse spiritualities originating in Africa and Asia. This is a tale of cynical quacks and sincere magical healers, depressed people and furious vigilantes, innocent victims and rogues who claimed to possess evil abilities. Their spellbinding stories raise important questions about the state's role in regulating radical spiritualities, the fragility of secularism and the true nature of magic.

Author : Sarah Covington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192587671

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The Devil from over the Sea by Sarah Covington Pdf

In Ireland, few figures have generated more hatred than Oliver Cromwell, whose seventeenth-century conquest, massacres, and dispossessions would endure in the social memory for ages to come. The Devil from over the Sea explores the many ways in which Cromwell was remembered and sometimes conveniently 'forgotten' in historical, religious, political, and literary texts, according to the interests of different communities across time. Cromwell's powerful afterlife in Ireland, however, cannot be understood without also investigating his presence in folklore and the landscape, in ruins and curses. Nor can he be separated from the idea of the 'Cromwellian': a term which came to elicit an entire chain of contemptuous associations that would begin after his invasion and assume a wholly new force in the nineteenth century. What emerges from all these memorializing traces is a multitudinous Cromwell who could be represented as brutal, comic, sympathetic, or satanic. He could be discarded also, tellingly, from the accounts of the past, and especially by those which viewed him as an embarrassment or worse. In addition to exploring the many reasons why Cromwell was so vehemently remembered or forgotten in Ireland, Sarah Covington finally uncovers the larger truths conveyed by sometimes fanciful or invented accounts. Contrary to being damaging examples of myth-making, the memorializations contained in martyrologies, folk tales, or newspaper polemics were often productive in cohering communities, or in displaying agency in the form of 'counter-memories' that claimed Cromwell for their own and reshaped Irish history in the process.

Author : Jack Strange
Publisher : Next Chapter
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : PKEY:6610000322060

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Strange Ireland by Jack Strange Pdf

In Ireland, truth, folklore, mythology, and legend are indistinguishably interwoven into a Celtic knot of strangeness. From fact to fiction and the peculiar to the bizarre, unravel some of Ireland’s most curious lore: the Blarney Stone kissing ceremony, the giant behind the Giant’s Causeway, the escapades of Saint Patrick, and the myths of the 1690 battle of the River Boyne among many others. Among the twenty-six chapters each detailing a unique Irish oddity, discover the history of Emerald Isle in a new light.

Author : Padraic O'Farrell
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781781171127

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Irish Blessings Toasts & Curses by Padraic O'Farrell Pdf

Irish people have blessings, toasts, and curses for every occasion and are renowned for yarns and stories. They have a gift of the gab which may come from kissing The Blarney Stone! This collection of humourous quotations is full of wit and merriment but the sayings come from times of revolution, famine, and hardship. This volume is a treasure trove of blessings, toasts, and curses and is an ideal gift for those of Irish heritage seeking to celebrate St. Patrick's Day (or St Patty's Day!) and St Brigid's day, which is now a national bank holiday in Ireland.

Author : Patrick C. Power
Publisher : Templegate Pub
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Reference
ISBN : 087243060X

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The Book of Irish Curses by Patrick C. Power Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z295809704

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“The” folk-lore record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Folklore Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : NYPL:33433068183379

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The Folk-lore Record by Folklore Society (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : James Heron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Celtic Church
ISBN : HARVARD:32044037133105

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The Celtic Church in Ireland by James Heron Pdf

Author : Dáithí Ó hÓgáin
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780717157693

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Irish Superstitions by Dáithí Ó hÓgáin Pdf

Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, one of Ireland's leading folklorists, gives a lively and informative account of the widespread folk beliefs of Ireland in Irish Superstitions, this popular guide to Irish superstitions, old wives' tales and other spooky stuff from the Irish countryside. Irish Superstitions includes a list of good-luck charms, spells, soothsayings and other irrational but charming and creative folk beliefs. There are stories of leprechauns and sprites, ghosts, the evil eye and wise women's curses. There are also charms and spells to make crops grow, to keep cattle healthy, to ensure safe childbirth, and to fulfil many other longed-for desires. Most of the superstitions are of pagan origin; many were overlaid with popular Christian belief. Irish Superstitions: Table of Contents Foreword — The Mind Engaged - Man the Summation of All Things - The World Around Us - Ourselves and the Others - Rules and Practices of Life