The Festival of Lughnasa: A Study of the Survival of the Celtic Festival of the Beginning of Harvest
Máire MacNeill. . London: Oxford University Press, 1962, 697 pp..
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The survey of roughly 190 documented Irish assembly sites and traditions, and the strongest single continuity case in the insular seasonal record. Predates the ISBN system; the work page is a finding aid rather than an edition record. Publisher, place, year and extent are confirmed from the notice in Irish Historical Studies.
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- Lughnasadh
- The survey of roughly 190 documented assembly sites and traditions, mapped and dated, and the argument for continuity built on them.
- Samhain
- For the method of testing a festival's continuity against the documentary and folklore record.