Investigating how communities in the West of Ireland remembered, well into the mid-twentieth century, an episode in the late eighteenth century, this is a “history from below” that gives serious attention to the perspectives of those ...

This unique reference work will be invaluable for anyone interested in the Robin Hood story, in folklore and mythology or in English local history.

The book covers a broad spectrum of southern folk groups, folklore expressions, and major themes of southern history, including antebellum society, slavery, the coming of the Civil War, economic modernization in the Appalachians and the Sea ...

And was there a real Shangri-la? What lies behind the Bible story of the Queen of Sheba, King Solomon, and the Ark of the Covenant? The tale is found in both the Jewish Bible and the Muslim Koran, and the Queen of Sheba is still revered.

Ballymenone is a district in the parish of Cleenish.

The book also considers how contemporary festivals and other forms of cultural heritage employ the legend as a cultural recourse.