Bibliography

Stiofán
Ó Cadhla
s. xx–xxi

5 publications between 2002 and 2019 indexed
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2019

article
Ó Cadhla, Stiofán, “‘We’ll talk now about charms’: knowledge as folklore and folklore as knowledge”, in: Ilona Tuomi, John Carey, Barbara Hillers, and Ciarán Ó Gealbhain (eds), Charms, charmers and charming in Ireland: from the medieval to the modern, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2019. 205–220.

2014

article
Ó Cadhla, Stiofán, “Gods and heroes: approaching the Acallam as ethnography”, in: Kevin Murray, and Aidan Doyle (eds), In dialogue with the Agallamh: essays in honour of Seán Ó Coileáin, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2014. 125–143.

2010

article
Ó Cadhla, Stiofán, “Scribes and storytellers: the ethnographic imagination in nineteenth-century Ireland”, in: Julia M. Wright (ed.), A companion to Irish literature, vol. 1, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 395–410.

2007

work
Ó Cadhla, Stiofán, Civilizing Ireland: Ordnance Survey 1824–1842, ethnography, cartography, translation, Dublin, Portland, Oregon: Irish Academic Press, 2007.  
abstract:
A unique contemporary analysis of the huge imperial mapping project of the British Government in nineteenth century Ireland, which describes as well as re-interprets the value of science and modernity as practiced by the British empire. The book raises questions about representation and academic discourses and highlights and interprets colonial techniques of observation and description. The nature of ‘evidence’ within colonial archive is also questioned. Focussing on the main aspects of the survey from a contemporary theoretical perspective it both enlivens the original documents and serves as a sensitive critique of it. The main themes are ethnographic description, translation and cartography and the relationship between them in the nineteenth century. Central to this is the emerging ‘view’ of Ireland and the Irish and the idea of the project as representative of early Irish ethnography. The book contains new findings in relation to renowned scholars such as John O’Donovan and re-engages with the Friel vs Andrews debate on ‘Translation and Irish culture’. The book should be of wide interest to folklorists, cultural sociologists, geographers, historians, ethnologists, cultural studies, Irish language scholars and the general reader with an interest in Ireland.
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abstract:
A unique contemporary analysis of the huge imperial mapping project of the British Government in nineteenth century Ireland, which describes as well as re-interprets the value of science and modernity as practiced by the British empire. The book raises questions about representation and academic discourses and highlights and interprets colonial techniques of observation and description. The nature of ‘evidence’ within colonial archive is also questioned. Focussing on the main aspects of the survey from a contemporary theoretical perspective it both enlivens the original documents and serves as a sensitive critique of it. The main themes are ethnographic description, translation and cartography and the relationship between them in the nineteenth century. Central to this is the emerging ‘view’ of Ireland and the Irish and the idea of the project as representative of early Irish ethnography. The book contains new findings in relation to renowned scholars such as John O’Donovan and re-engages with the Friel vs Andrews debate on ‘Translation and Irish culture’. The book should be of wide interest to folklorists, cultural sociologists, geographers, historians, ethnologists, cultural studies, Irish language scholars and the general reader with an interest in Ireland.
(source: Publisher)

2002

work
Ó Cadhla, Stiofán, The holy well tradition: the pattern of St Declan, Ardmore, County Waterford, 1800–2000, Maynooth Studies in Local History, 45, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002. 63 pp.