An Archaeology Of Folklore: A Transdisciplinary Future In University College Dublin’s National Folklore Collection

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Digitized materials cross the threshold from one realm to another. What emerges from this ethereal archive is suddenly both artifact and ephemera. At the NFC, the School Collection preserves material that the children of the Republic of Ireland compiled in the late 1930s. Their contributions create one of many stratigraphic layers in the archive and inform our interpretations of an Irish past. This particular layer housed in the NFC illuminates the narratives that children recorded as threads in a larger national tapestry as voiced by the adults in their community. Through this educational process one may witness the connections of pasts and futures in Ireland today. How can Historical Archaeology and Folklore Studies aid one another in engaging with difficult pasts, presents, and futures? What does it mean to engage across the fictional barriers of a discipline? What does a transdisciplinary lens lend to the construction of the Irish past?

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
• Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)

Keywords

Spatial Coverage

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Nicole Haddow