Kevin Danaher

Life
1913-? [Caoimhín Ó Danachair]; b. Co. Limerick, ed. UCD and Berlin; Irish Army captain, 1940-45; ed. The Irish Sword, 1960- ; a kinsman was a school-teacher and afterwards mayor of Limerick. DIW OCIL

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Works
  • In Ireland Long Ago (Cork: Mercier 1962; rep. 1976; 1978, 1991);
  • Gentle Places and Simple Things (1964);
  • Folktales of the Irish countryside (Cork: Mercier 1965; rep. 1976);
  • Irish Country People (Cork: Mercier 1966, 1976);
  • The Pleasant Land of Ireland (Cork: Mercier 1967);
  • A Bibliography of Irish Ethnology and Folk Tradition (Cork: Mercier 1978);
  • Irish Wake Amusements (Cork: Mercier n.d.);
  • The Year in Ireland (Cork: Mercier 1972);
  • Ireland’s Vernacular Architecture (1975);
  • A Bibliography of Irish Ethnology and Folk Tradition (1978);
  • That’s How It Was (1984).
  • The Hearth And Stoll And All. Irish Rural Households (Cork: Mercier 1985).
Miscellaneous
  • ‘The Gaelteacht’, in A View of the Irish Language, ed. Brian Ó Cuiv (1969), pp.112-21;
  • ‘An Rí [The King]: An Example of Traditional Social Organisation’, in Journal of Royal Soc. of Antiquaries of Ireland, 111 (1981), pp.14-28.

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