National Folklore Collection travelling exhibition

by abevan on 12 November, 2009

Image of two girls on the Blasket Islands from the National Folklore Collection, University College DublinThe National Photographic Archive, Dublin hosted an exhibition of twenty images from the National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin for Culture Night in September this year and the exhibition attracted a great deal of interest.
The exhibition is now available (free of charge apart from transport costs) to libraries and other institutes or bodies who may wish to host it.
This photographic exhibition celebrates the contribution of four Swedish scholars and writers to Irish culture in the first half of the twentieth century. Each of them played a significant role in advancing the study of Irish folklore and ethnology and in cultivating Swedish-Irish relations. All four men and women were also capable photographers, and many of the photographs and correspondence with Irish colleagues are now preserved in the National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin.
The black and white images are mounted and framed and an accompanying catalogue was printed in Irish, English and Swedish.
For further deatils please contact the director of the National Folklore Collection, Ríonach uí Ógáin .

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