'Dead Clay and Living Clay': Máirtín Ó Cadhain's criticisms of the work of the Irish Folklore Commission

摘要

Dr Mícheál Briody is a lecturer at the Language Centre of the University of Helsinki. He is a graduate of University College Dublin and the University of Helsinki. His research interests and publications cover: the history of European folkloristics; the oral narrative traditions of Gaelic Ireland and Scotland; Irish cultural history; biography and memory; as well as aspects of Irish language and literature. He is the author of The Irish Folklore Commission 1935−1970: History, Ideology, Methodology (SKS 2007) as well as numerous articles. He is at present engaged in researching a monograph on storytelling in the Irish and Scottish-Gaelic traditions and is also preparing an edition (with a commentary) of the folkloristic writings of the writer Máirtín Ó Cadhain.