Folklore
Articles
- Two Australian Folklore Journals
Scholars with an interest in Australian folklore will find a good deal of value to them in two small journals, Singabout and Gunsuckers' Gazette…
1 December 1963 - Ned Kelly: The Flight of the Legend
There were some who were saying Ned was dead. But now a Ned Kelly renaissance is in full flower. The experts are writing about him…
1 October 1967 - More Substance to Fisher’s Ghost?
Hadgraft and Webby account for the legend of Fisher's Ghost, which has its origins in the murder of farmer Frederick Fisher in Campbell Town on…
1 May 1968 - ‘Sweet Mary of Kilmore’: Discrimination in Australian Folklore Scholarship
The author traces the history of an originally Irish folk song ‘Sweet Mary of Kilmore’ that never made it into Australian folklore collections. He argues…
1 November 2008 - Facey’s A Fortunate Life and Traditional Oral Narratives
Argues that 'there were features of Bert's world which make it more appropriately thought of as a residually oral culture, and which suggest that a…
1 May 1988 - Bibliographic Notes on Selected Irish-Australian Writers
This essay surveys the viewpoints of selected Irish-Australian writers: the anthologists Bill Wannan, Vincent Woods and Colleen Burke then Bernard O’Dowd, Brian Elliott, Tom Inglis…
30 September 2021 - Vincent Buckley, Colonialism and the Problem of Irish-Australian Identity
Perhaps no Australian writer or thinker has probed the condition of Irishness in Australia more extensively than the poet-critic Vincent Buckley (1925-88). His first memoir…
30 September 2021 - Fantasising the Nation for Child Readers in Early Australian Fairy Tales
This article examines three collections of Australian fairy tales published between 1897 and 1925 and considers the ways in which they contributed to nation-building efforts…
11 December 2022
Contributors
- Wendy Capper
- Cecil Hadgraft
- Keith McKenry
- Ronan McDonald
- Val Noone
- John Ryan
- Michelle J. Smith
- Edgar Waters
- Elizabeth Webby