Conor Caldwell is a musician, broadcaster, teacher and researcher based in Belfast. He completed his PhD at Queen’s University Belfast in 2013 with a thesis studying the life and music of celebrated Donegal fiddler John Doherty.Eamon Byers is a teacher and writer based in London. He completed his PhD at Queen’s University Belfast in 2014 with a thesis exploring the interaction between medievalism and folk music in English culture from the eighteenth century to the present day.

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• Contents: Eamon Byers/Conor Caldwell: Introduction – Diarmuid Ó Giolláin: Folklore: A Zombie Category? – Manuel Cadeddu: Legends and Oral History in Bram Stoker’s The Snakw’s Pass – Anjili Babbar: Humanizing History: Storytelling and Subjectivity in the Works of Frank Delaney – Rebecca Long: Who Knows Where the Time Goes: Songs of the Past and Stories of the Present in Kate Thompson’s The New Policeman – Maria Byrne: Valse Shilly Shally: An Irish Expression of the Viennese Waltz – Angela Horgan Goff: Musical Interpretations of Fenian Literature by Contemporary Irish Composers – Daithí Kearney: Revisiting Samhain: Two Directions on a Theme – Eilís Ní Dhúill: From Page to Stage and Beyond: (Re)imagining Cré na Cille – Jack Casey: Mother Ireland: Folklore and the Fractured Family in Irish-Themed Cinema – Ben Simon: Discovering and Celebrating Ireland’s Tree Folklore.

Conor Caldwell is a musician, broadcaster, teacher and researcher based in Belfast. He completed his PhD at Queen’s University Belfast in 2013 with a thesis studying the life and music of celebrated Donegal fiddler John Doherty.Eamon Byers is a teacher and writer based in London. He completed his PhD at Queen’s University Belfast in 2014 with a thesis exploring the interaction between medievalism and folk music in English culture from the eighteenth century to the present day.

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• Contents: Eamon Byers/Conor Caldwell: Introduction – Diarmuid Ó Giolláin: Folklore: A Zombie Category? – Manuel Cadeddu: Legends and Oral History in Bram Stoker’s The Snakw’s Pass – Anjili Babbar: Humanizing History: Storytelling and Subjectivity in the Works of Frank Delaney – Rebecca Long: Who Knows Where the Time Goes: Songs of the Past and Stories of the Present in Kate Thompson’s The New Policeman – Maria Byrne: Valse Shilly Shally: An Irish Expression of the Viennese Waltz – Angela Horgan Goff: Musical Interpretations of Fenian Literature by Contemporary Irish Composers – Daithí Kearney: Revisiting Samhain: Two Directions on a Theme – Eilís Ní Dhúill: From Page to Stage and Beyond: (Re)imagining Cré na Cille – Jack Casey: Mother Ireland: Folklore and the Fractured Family in Irish-Themed Cinema – Ben Simon: Discovering and Celebrating Ireland’s Tree Folklore.

Conor Caldwell is a musician, broadcaster, teacher and researcher based in Belfast. He completed his PhD at Queen’s University Belfast in 2013 with a thesis studying the life and music of celebrated Donegal fiddler John Doherty.Eamon Byers is a teacher and writer based in London. He completed his PhD at Queen’s University Belfast in 2014 with a thesis exploring the interaction between medievalism and folk music in English culture from the eighteenth century to the present day.

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• Contents: Eamon Byers/Conor Caldwell: Introduction – Diarmuid Ó Giolláin: Folklore: A Zombie Category? – Manuel Cadeddu: Legends and Oral History in Bram Stoker’s The Snakw’s Pass – Anjili Babbar: Humanizing History: Storytelling and Subjectivity in the Works of Frank Delaney – Rebecca Long: Who Knows Where the Time Goes: Songs of the Past and Stories of the Present in Kate Thompson’s The New Policeman – Maria Byrne: Valse Shilly Shally: An Irish Expression of the Viennese Waltz – Angela Horgan Goff: Musical Interpretations of Fenian Literature by Contemporary Irish Composers – Daithí Kearney: Revisiting Samhain: Two Directions on a Theme – Eilís Ní Dhúill: From Page to Stage and Beyond: (Re)imagining Cré na Cille – Jack Casey: Mother Ireland: Folklore and the Fractured Family in Irish-Themed Cinema – Ben Simon: Discovering and Celebrating Ireland’s Tree Folklore.