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    Irish folklore (Irish: béaloideas) refers to the folktales, balladry, music, dance and mythology of Ireland. It is the study and appreciation of how people...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Irish mythology. Department of Irish Folklore, Dublin. Includes the National Folklore Archives The Celtic Literature Collection...
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  • used in modern Ireland, where "Black Irish" usually refers to Irish people of African descent. The first use of the term "Black Irish" is tied to the...
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  • The Irish Folklore Commission (Coimisiún Béaloideasa Éireann in Irish) was set up in 1935 by the Irish Government to study and collect information on the...
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    wraith, or double-ganger". Patrick Kennedy's 1866 folklore collection Legendary Fiction of the Irish Celts includes a brief account of "The Doctor's Fetch"...
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  • English folklore, Irish folklore, Scottish folklore and Welsh folklore. Celtic mythology Cornish mythology Hebridean mythology and folklore Irish mythology...
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    Britain Irish folklore Manx folklore Hebridean mythology and folklore Scottish folklore Welsh folklore Dutch folklore Alpine folklore Spanish folklore French...
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  • by the Irish Folklore Commission in 1948". iMuseum. Retrieved 3 January 2021. Briody, Mícheál (9 February 2008). "Keepers of the folklore". Irish Times...
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    Headless Horseman is an archetype of mythical figure that has appeared in folklore around Europe since the Middle Ages. The figures are traditionally depicted...
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    Leprechaun (redirect from Irish Leprechaun)
    A leprechaun (Irish: lucharachán/leipreachán/luchorpán) is a diminutive supernatural being in Irish folklore, classed by some as a type of solitary fairy...
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  • Black Irish may refer to: Black people in Ireland, people of African or other Black heritage holding Irish citizenship Black Irish (folklore), an Irish-American...
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    blackthorn stick with a large knob at the top. It is associated with Ireland and Irish folklore. Other spelling variants include shillelah, shillalah, and shillaly...
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    Aos Sí (category Irish folklore)
    is Irish for "the good people", which is a popular term used to refer to the fairies in Irish folklore. Due to the oral nature of Irish folklore the...
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    the Irish Phooka. John Rhys, a Welsh scholar of Celtic culture and folklore, records a story from Monmouthshire in his 1901 book Celtic Folklore about...
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  • the Irish Singles Chart, respectively, taking Swift's career top-tens to a total of 15. Folklore is 2020's longest-running number-one album of Ireland, and...
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    Selkie (category Irish folklore)
    tale of the Faroese selkie in his song "Kopakonan". The mermaid in Irish folklore (sometimes called merrow in Hiberno-English) has been regarded as a...
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    Banshee (category Irish folklore)
    Modern Irish bean sí, from Old Irish: ben síde [bʲen ˈʃiːðʲe], "woman of the fairy mound" or "fairy woman") is a female spirit in Irish folklore who heralds...
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  • Mythic humanoids are legendary, folkloric, or mythological creatures that are part human, or that resemble humans through appearance or character. Each...
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    Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. This includes oral traditions such as tales,...
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    Blarney Stone (category Irish folklore)
    Monaghan, The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore. New York: Facts On File. 2004. pp. 48, 91 Irish Pedigrees: MacCarthy, Lords of Muskry #119 Richard...
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    Dullahan (category Irish folklore)
    The Dullahan (Irish: Dubhlachan; dúlachán, /ˈduːləˌhɑːn/) is a type of legendary creature in Irish folklore. He is depicted as a headless rider on a black...
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    Nechtan is a figure in Irish mythology who is associated with a spring marking the source of the River Boyne, known as Nechtan's Well or the Well of Wisdom...
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    Holy Trinity. The name shamrock comes from Irish seamróg ([ˈʃamˠɾˠoːɡ]), which is the diminutive of the Irish word seamair and simply means "young clover"...
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  • Cù-sìth (category Irish folklore)
    pronunciation: [kʰɔɲ ˈhiː]) is a mythical hound found in Irish folklore and Scottish folklore. In Irish folklore it is spelled cú sídhe, and it also bears some...
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  • Celtic folklore may refer to: The Folklore in the modern Celtic nations: Hebridean mythology and folklore Irish folklore Scottish folklore Welsh folklore Or...
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  • Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions is a 2020 American documentary concert film directed and produced by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift...
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  • Classifications of fairies (category Irish folklore)
    Fairies, particularly those of Irish, English, Scottish and Welsh folklore, have been classified in a variety of ways. Classifications – which most often...
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    Púca (category Irish folklore)
    Yeats, W.B.: "Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry", in A Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend, and Folklore, p. 94, ISBN 0-517-48904-X. Mackillop 1998...
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    Japheth and make him the ancestor to the Irish through Partholón, leader of the first group to colonise Ireland after the Deluge, and a descendant of Magog...
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  • Song of the Sea (2014 film) (category Articles containing Irish-language text)
    film by Cartoon Saloon. The film is the second instalment of Moore's "Irish Folklore Trilogy", following his previous film The Secret of Kells (2009) and...
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