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Blúiríní Béaloidis / Folklore Fragments
Blúiríní Béaloidis Folklore Podcast
Bluiríní Béaloidis is the podcast from The National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin, and is a platform to explore Irish and wider European folk tradition across an array of subject areas and topics. Host Jonny Dillon hopes this tour through the folklore furrow will appeal to those who wish to learn about the richness and depth of their traditional cultural inheritance; that a knowledge and understanding of our past might inform our present and guide our future.
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4.9 stars from 356 ratings
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“I found the series a couple of months ago and wanted to let you know how much I am enjoying it. I love the relaxed presentation from two people who clearly love their subject matter with a passion. The old tape recordings are great and really make the tales relevant - looking forward to listening...”Read full review »
RichardinLincoln via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
03/06/23
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“Appreciate all that I have learned in this Podcast, thank you 🙏🏽”
M. Land via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
01/08/23
More than words can express
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“I enjoy this show more than words can express. MIt allows me to learn more about my Irish heritage (plus makes me wish I had listened more carefully, and known enough to ask more questions while the previous generation was with us, may God bless them and rest their souls). In any event, I find...”Read full review »
patd2foxfire via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/07/22
Recent Episodes
Bees have been cultivated in Ireland since early times. Of value for their wax and honey, there were also believed to be blessed creatures, as Dáithí Ó hÓgáin writes: "probably because of the use of their wax to make church candles, and one medieval legend describes a swarm of bees building a...
Published 05/09/23
Published 05/09/23
Lying in fields and ditches, at the edge of old and overgrown graveyards and in lonesome places all over Ireland rest forgotten echoes of our past. Large and unwieldy stones; blocks of granite and sandstone flags which, used in former times as tests of strength, still reverberate with the memory...
Published 12/06/22
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