# folk tradition (podcasts) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover folk tradition. Page: Feed: --- ## [Blúiríní Bealoidis 44 - Legends & Literature (with Ailbe van der Heide)](https://soundcloud.com/folklore_podcast/blu-iri-ni-bealoidis-44) _2026-02-06 · Blúiríní Béaloidis Folklore Podcast_ Ailbe van der Heide is Collections Curator at the National Folklore Collection, having joined the staff in 2020, shortly after graduating from the MA in Irish Folklore in 2020. For several years now, Ailbe has managed the National Folklore Collection’s reading room service, along with fielding an array of queries from members of the public keen to explore our collections. Throughout her work, and… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2261414534-folklore_podcast-blu-iri-ni-bealoidis-44.mp3) ## [Blúiríní Béaloidis 43 - Indexing Folklore (with Steve Roud)](https://soundcloud.com/folklore_podcast/blu-iri-ni-be-aloidis-43) _2025-10-09 · Blúiríní Béaloidis Folklore Podcast_ Steve Roud is a Librarian, folklore scholar and creator of the Roud Folk Song Index, which contains upwards of 750,000 entries to around 45,000 English language folk songs, as found in books, recordings, manuscripts and other sources the world over. His index, and ‘Roud Numbers’ (a numbering system employed to identify the same song across many different titles) are widely acclaimed for the scope,… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2185785493-folklore_podcast-blu-iri-ni-be-aloidis-43.mp3) ## [Blúiríní Béaloidis 42 - Passing the Time (with Henry Glassie)](https://soundcloud.com/folklore_podcast/blu-iri-ni-be-aloidis-42) _2025-05-27 · Blúiríní Béaloidis Folklore Podcast_ Video recording of this episode is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OcxwmDuUeU&ab\_channel=UCD-UniversityCollegeDublin Henry Glassie is College Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, and has published widely in the fields of material culture and vernacular architecture. His contribution to the discipline of Irish Folklore and Ethnology has been exceptional.… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2102103300-folklore_podcast-blu-iri-ni-be-aloidis-42.mp3) ## [Blúiríní Béaloidis 41 - Food in Irish Tradition (with Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire)](https://soundcloud.com/folklore_podcast/blu-iri-ni-be-aloidis-41-food) _2025-04-02 · Blúiríní Béaloidis Folklore Podcast_ Regarding food in Irish tradition, Kevin Danaher, writing in 1964, noted that "Sometimes we get the impression that Ireland, in ancient times, was a land of plenty, and again we get quite the opposite impression - that our forebears lived out their lives on the very edge of starvation. In reality both these impressions are wrong." As an expression of culture that permeates every aspect of life,… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2069109976-folklore_podcast-blu-iri-ni-be-aloidis-41-food.mp3) ## [Bluiríní Béaloidis 40 - What Is A Folklore Archive](https://soundcloud.com/folklore_podcast/bluiri-ni-be-aloidis-40-what) _2024-12-17 · Blúiríní Béaloidis Folklore Podcast_ Hello a chairde, and welcome to episode 40 of Blúiríní Béaloidis, the podcast from the National Folklore Collection. It would be remiss of me not to commence this episode of the podcast with long, grovelling apologies concerning the absence of signs of life regarding the series over the last year and a half. The good news is that the podcast still exists, the work of the NFC continues apace, and… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1988188799-folklore_podcast-bluiri-ni-be-aloidis-40-what.mp3)