Irish Folk Ways

1967 Reprint Softcover of this much sought after 1957 volume on the many aspects of our Social History. Richly illustrated. 324 pages
Irish Folk Ways
E. Estyn Evans
A work of great charm, in the field of social history, based on extensive fieldwork and fully documented. The author draws parallels between the folkways of Ireland and those of other parts of Western Europe and more distant parts of the world. He has not contented himself with descriptions of rural tools and customs but has been concerned to trace their origins and to bridge the centuries between the prehistoric past and the living scene which the visitor will find in many corners of Ireland.

'Expounded with much unusual crudition. From a wealth of observation, mostly of his own, of country ways, supplemented by a wide knowledge of the printed accounts of Irish life, he has built up a most informative record. For all its learning his book is popular in the best way, and admirably illustrated by his own drawings as well as by photographs.'