Main group 1

Mandatory Reading

• Folktales of Ireland, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1991Compulsory*
• McNeill, Lynne S., Folklore rules: a fun, quick, and useful introduction to the field of academic folklore studies, Logan, Utah State University Press, [2013]Compulsory*

Secondary Readings

• Bourke, Angela, The burning of Bridget Cleary: a true story, London, Pimlico, 1999
• Campbell, John Gregorson, The Gaelic otherworld: John Gregorson Campbell's Superstitions of the Highlands and the islands of Scotland and witchcraft and second sight in the Highlands and islands, Edinburgh, Origin, 2019
• International folkloristics: classic contributions by the founders of folklore, Lanham, Md., Rowman & Littlefield, 1999
• Dundes, Alan, The study of folklore, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, cop. 1965
• Glassie, Henry H, Passing the time in Ballymenone: culture and history of an Ulster community, 1st Indiana University Press ed, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1995
• Irish folktales, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1987, c1985
• Ó Giolláin, Diarmuid, Locating Irish folklore: tradition, modernity, identity, Cork, Cork University Press, 2000
• Feminist messages: coding in women's folk culture, Urbana, Univ. of Illinois Press, cop. 1993

* Compulsory