Tales and People of Northern Ireland.
University of Pennsylvania folklorist Henry Glassie has been the last ten years studying the Northern Irish community of Ballymenone. Glassie sees the conflict and history of this community as a microcosm of Ireland's at large, and says he wanted to present the "workaday reality" of average people. His study has been compiled into the book "Passing the Time in Ballymenone: Culture and History of an Ulster Community," and contains stories, songs, and Glassie's own descriptions and analyses. A companion volume, "Irish Folk History: Tales From the North," contains transcriptions of songs and stories from the community.
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