Calendar Custom

(2.5,3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

"IRFL30020 Calendar Custom at UCD. This module will deal with customs and traditions relating to significant days and festivals in the Irish traditional calendar, and will examine the ways in which these occasions are marked in popular culture. Calendar custom encompasses many aspects of popular tradition including ritual belief and practice, narrative, song, dance and folk drama. The continuing development of calendar custom in contemporary society will be focussed upon and discussed and, in this context, the course will enable students to draw on their own experience as part of their studies. Assignment: Two 1200-1500 assignments; Examination: One 2-hour paper."