Présentation de l'éditeur In his inimitable style, gifted folklorist Kevin Danaher invites the reader to visit people of a former generation in their homes, to sit around the hearth, to listen to their tales and gossip and sample their food and drink, to marvel at their implements, to meet a water diviner, observe a faction fight, hurry to a wedding and bow down in remembrance of the dead. For over thirty years In Ireland Long Ago has charmed, informed and surprised successive generations of readers, in Ireland and abroad. Biographie de l'auteur Kevin Danaher was born in Athea, County Limerick, in 1915, and educated at University College, Dublin and the universities of Berlin and Leipzig. After service as a captain in the Irish army during the Emergency, he became a full-time ethnologist with the Irish Folklore Commission (later the Department of Irish Folklore in University College Dublin). He was as fine a writer as he was a folklorist and his many works include The Year in Ireland (1972) and Irish Country Households (1985). His research provided the basis for the Folk Park at Bunratty County Clare.
