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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nT\u00e1 an \u00e1thas orainn cuireadh a thabhart duit chuig l\u00e9acht leis tOllamh Ray Cashman, ar an Luan, 11 M\u00e1rta, ag 7.00 PM, sa James Joyce Centre ar Sraid Sheoirse Thua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An Cumann Le B\u00e9aloideas \u00e9ireann\/The Folklore of Ireland Society is delighted to invite you to a presentation by the distinguished folklore scholar, Professor Ray Cashman (University of Indiana, Bloomington), at the James Joyce Centre on Monday, 11 March 2024 at 7pm<\/strong>. This is a rare opportunity to hear the internationally renowned folklore scholar give a presentation in Dublin about Irish folklore and an Gorta M\u00f3r.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLuck\u2019s Pennies, Butter Witches, and the Hungry Grass: Community in a World of Limited Good\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many examples of Irish folklore reflect and instill enduring conceptions about the workings, vulnerability, and viability of community, a project in need of continual maintenance. Arguably, there has been no more devastating blow to the vernacular understanding of community than the mid-nineteenth-century Famine. If folklore provides models for contemplating and reproducing ideas about how community may be enacted, it also bears witness to the haunting consequences of abandoning this social contract for mutual support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Professor Ray Cashman is director of the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at the University of Indiana, Bloomington. He is currently Visiting Professor at NUI Galway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n