Bluiríní Béaloidis 40 - What Is A Folklore Archive

About this episode

This episode explores the concept and significance of folklore archives in documenting traditional customs and practices.

Hello a chairde, and welcome to episode 40 of Blúiríní Béaloidis, the podcast from the National Folklore Collection. It would be remiss of me not to commence this episode of the podcast with long, grovelling apologies concerning the absence of signs of life regarding the series over the last year and a half. The good news is that the podcast still exists, the work of the NFC continues apace, and the bad news, well… there is no bad news really; just the reality of one individuals less-than-perfect attempts at keeping a variety of plates spinning while kicking cans down the road. Forgive me please! Forty episodes ago, we commenced our wanderings through the folklore furrow by asking 'what is folklore?' Now, having traversed some of the way together, we will stop to consider well, what is a folklore archive? Folklore archives, in actively setting out to document the traditional customs, practices and memories of ‘ordinary people’, have tended to develop on the margins of the professional archival world. They offer unique cases for archival research, as the systems of classification and description they employ, along with the impulses that motivate them, pose questions regarding the…

People in this episode

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Topics covered

• folklore archives
• traditional customs
• archival research
• documenting memories
• classification systems

Keywords

• folklore
• archive
• customs
• practices
• memories
• archival research
• classification

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: National Folklore Collection

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