Folklore seeks out the things that are not permitted in official discourse. An Interview with Lillis Ó Laoire

Liam Lillis Ó Laoire

doi:10.24162/EI2020-9393

Folklore seeks out the things that are not permitted in official discourse. An Interview with Lillis Ó Laoire

Liam Lillis Ó Laoire

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Lillis Ó Laoire is a sean-nós singer and lecturer in the School of Languages, NUI Galway. He is a Donegal native and a graduate of NUI Galway and of University College Cork. He has been a visiting Professor at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. He has co-authored a book (with Seán Williams) on the great Connemara singer Joe Heaney, Bright Star of the West (Oxford UP, 2011). His research interests include Gaelic song traditions and history, performance and transmission of folklore, ecocriticism and ethnomusicology. As a scholar, he has published articles in Journal of Rural Studies, Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies and in the American Journal of Irish Studies, among other specialized journals. This interview took place in January 2019 at NUI Galway, where he teaches Irish language, folklore and Celtic Civilisation.

Original language	English (Ireland)
Journal	Estudios Irlandeses-Journal of Irish Studies
Volume	15
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2020-9393
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2020

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José Francisco Fernandez, Lillis Ó Laoire

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Folklore seeks out the things that are not permitted in official discourse. An Interview with Lillis Ó Laoire

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