The Urban Folklore Project: 1979-1980
In September 1979, the Department of Irish Folklore, University College Dublin, initiated a project to collect folklore in urban areas of Ireland whose traditions, customs and social history had not been recorded as intensively as rural areas of Ireland. Funded by the Department of Education, the Urban Folklore Project was intended to address this rural-urban imbalance, using the most up-to-date audio and video recording equipment. The team of some sixteen collectors made more than 1,000 hours of audio and video recordings over a sixteen month period, chiefly in the Dublin metropolitan region. A comprehensive photographic record of Dublin’s social and cultural life, trade and commerce was also made, amounting to several thousand images which are now housed in the National Folklore Collection.
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Description: Girls playing the game “Farmer’s Wife” at St. Patrick’s National School, Bray, Co. Wicklow. |
| Date: 28.05.1980 | |
| Photographer: George McClafferty | |
| Reference: UFP00001 | |
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Description: Boys playing the game “Chariots” at St. Peter’s National School, Bray, Co. Wicklow. |
| Date: 23.04.1980 | |
| Photographer: George McClafferty | |
| Reference: UFP00002 | |
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Description: Opening of the new Billy Morton Athletics |
| Date: 01.07.1980 | |
| Photographer: Gerard Brady | |
| Reference: UFP00003 | |
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Description: Tax (P.A.Y.E.) protest, College Green, Dublin. |
| Date: 01.01.1980 | |
| Photographer: George McClafferty | |
| Reference: UFP00004 | |
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Description: Streets in Ringsend, Dublin, decorated with bunting at time of Pope’s visit. |
| Date: 01.11.1979 | |
| Photographer: Patricia Jackson | |
| Reference: UFP00005 | |
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Description: Anti-nuclear protest outside the Department of Foreign Affairs, St. Stephens’ Green, Dublin. |
| Date: 01.11.1980 | |
| Photographer: Móna Ní hAilbheartaigh | |
| Reference: UFP00006 | |
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Description: Liberties schoolchildren returning home from School. |
| Date: 01.03.1980 | |
| Photographer: Séamas Mac Philib | |
| Reference: UFP00007 | |
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Description: Girl and pram, Gloucester Place, Dublin. |
| Date: 01.03.1980 | |
| Photographer: George McClafferty | |
| Reference: UFP00009 | |
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Description: Description: “Character” at Fruit & Vegetable Market, Dublin (has two grapefruits stuffed up his jumper). |
| Date: 01.01.1980 | |
| Photographer: George McClafferty | |
| Reference: UFP00010 | |
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Description: Informant, Tommy Dudley (“Bang Bang”) in characteristic “banging” pose, Clonturk House, Drumcondra, Dublin. |
| Date: 11.06.1980 | |
| Photographer: Séamas Sisk / Gerard Brady | |
| Reference: UFP00011 | |
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Description: Road worker, Dorset Street, Dublin. |
| Date: 01.02.1980 | |
| Photographer: February 1980 | |
| Reference: UFP00013 | |
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Description: Informant, Jack Kilduff, Lucan. |
| Date: 01.05.1980 | |
| Photographer: Séamas Mac Philib | |
| Reference: UFP00014 | |
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Description: Gardener, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin. |
| Date: 14.03.1980 | |
| Photographer: Aideen Ireland | |
| Reference: UFP00017 | |
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Description: Cut, polished and numbered granite slabs and lintels, Ballybrew quarry, Co. Dublin. |
| Date: 01.05.1980 | |
| Photographer: Rónán Bourke | |
| Reference: UFP00020 | |
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Description: Example of hand embroidery, Shannon Embroidery, Dublin. |
| Date: 01.01.1980 | |
| Photographer: Roseanne Meehan | |
| Reference: UFP00021 | |
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Description: Workshop of silversmiths Alwright & Marshall, Fade Street, Dublin. |
| Date: 01.01.1980 | |
| Photographer: Gerard Brady | |
| Reference: UFP00022 | |
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Description: Workshop of silversmiths Alwright & Marshall, Fade Street, Dublin. |
| Date: 01.01.1980 | |
| Photographer: Bróna Nic Amhlaoibh | |
| Reference: UFP00036 | |
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Description: Des Taafe, silversmith, Dublin Silver, Dawson Street, working on a silver bowl. |
| Date: 01.02.1980 | |
| Photographer: Tony Lynch | |
| Reference: UFP00035 | |
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Description: Dublin Paint & Glass Studio, Dublin. |
| Date: 01.02.1980 | |
| Photographer: Seán Popplewell | |
| Reference: UFP00025 | |
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Description: Stonemason rebuilding wall next to a gate in Phoenix Park, Dublin, widened to facilitate Pope’s visit some months before. |
| Date: 29.02.1980 | |
| Photographer: George McClafferty | |
| Reference: UFP00023 | |
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Description: Window shopping, O’Connell Street, Dublin. |
| Date: 01.09.1980 | |
| Photographer: Gerard Brady | |
| Reference: UFP00027 | |
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Description: Woman at rear of Moore Street, Dublin. |
| Date: 01.09.1980 | |
| Photographer: Gerard Brady | |
| Reference: UFP00028 | |
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Description: Traveller children, Cabinteely, Dublin. |
| Date: 01.07.1980 | |
| Photographer: Pádraigín Ní Bhaoill | |
| Reference: UFP00029 | |
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Description: Pedestrians, O’Connell Street, Dublin. |
| Date: 01.09.1980 | |
| Photographer: Gerard Brady | |
| Reference: UFP00030 | |
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Description: Pedestrians, College Green, Dublin. |
| Date: 01.09.1980 | |
| Photographer: Photographer: Gerard Brady | |
| Reference: UFP00032 | |
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Description: Buying shamrock, Henry Street, Dublin. |
| Date: 17.03.1980 | |
| Photographer: Roseanne Meenan | |
| Reference: UFP00033 | |
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Description: Charlie Fanning, thatcher, Skerries, Co. Dublin, speaking to Tony Lynch. |
| Date: 01.09.1980 | |
| Photographer: Bróna Nic Amhlaoibh | |
| Reference: UFP00034 | |
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Description: Weaving on a mechanical loom, firm of “Crock-of-Gold”, Blackrock, Dublin. |
| Date: 01.02.1980 | |
| Photographer: Tony Lynch | |
| Reference: UFP00037 | |
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Description: Frank Gillespie at work, weaver’s shed, Kilmainham, Dublin. |
| Date: 01.01.1980 | |
| Photographer: Bróna Nic Amhlaoibh | |
| Reference: UFP00038 | |
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Description: Coopers at work, Power’s Distillery, Dublin. |
| Date: 01.01.1980 | |
| Photographer: Patricia Jackson | |
| Reference: UFP00040 | |
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Description: Heuston Station entrance, Dublin. |
| Date: 18.01.1980 | |
| Photographer: Seán Popplewell | |
| Reference: UFP00041 | |
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Description: Horse and cart outside the Fruit & Vegetable Market, Mary’s Lane, Dublin. |
| Date: 01.01.1980 | |
| Photographer: George McClafferty | |
| Reference: UFP00042 | |
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Description: Dray-horse and cart from Sander’s Scrapyard, |
| Date: 01.05.1980 | |
| Photographer: Séamas Mac Philib | |
| Reference: UFP00043 | |
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Description: “Mother’s Pride” bread van, East Wall Road, Dublin. |
| Date: 01.09.1980 | |
| Photographer: Gerard Brady | |
| Reference: UFP00044 | |
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Description: Man pushing hand-cart up Clanbrassil Street Lower, Dublin. |
| Date: 01.04.1980 | |
| Photographer: George McClafferty | |
| Reference: UFP00045 | |
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Description: Irish Theatre Company haulage van. |
| Date: 01.06.1980 | |
| Photographer: Rónán Bourke | |
| Reference: UFP00046 | |
