| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 167 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Irish literature, history, and culture |
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Irish literature, history, and culture.
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| Contents |
The Irish Christmas -- The personality of the season: rhyming, pranking, and bonfires -- Harvest -- The Feast of Autumn -- Oiche Shamhana, Night of the Spirits -- Tie the nine knots: games, divination, and belief -- Gender construction and cultural hegemony in Northern Ireland |
| Summary |
In Northern Ireland, Halloween is such a major celebration that it is often called the Irish Christmas. A day of family reunions, meals, and fun, Halloween brings people of all ages together with rhyming, storytelling, family fireworks, and community bonfires. Perhaps most important, it has become a day that transcends the social conflict found in this often troubled nation. Through the extensive use of interviews, The Hallowed Eve offers a fascinating look at the various customs, both past and present, that mark the celebration of the holiday. Looking through the lenses of gender, ethnicity, and religious affiliation, Jack Santino examines how the traditions exist in a nonthreatening, celebratory way to provide a model of how life could be in Northern Ireland. Halloween, concludes Santino, is a marriage of death and life, a joining of cultural opposites: indoor and outdoor, domesticity and wildness, female and male, young and old |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-164) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Halloween gnd |
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Halloween -- Northern Ireland -- History
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Folklore -- Northern Ireland
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Holidays (non-religious)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Folklore
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Halloween
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Manners and customs
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Geschichte
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Halloween
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Halloween.
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Halloween -- Grande-Bretagne -- Irlande du Nord (GB)
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| SUBJECT |
Northern Ireland -- Social life and customs
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| Subject |
Northern Ireland
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Nordirland
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Irlande du Nord (GB) -- Moeurs et coutumes.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
98036767 |
| ISBN |
9780813149943 |
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0813149940 |
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