Amy
Please do contact me - I'm happy to pass on what we have, and there is quite a lot here.
One of the most interesting of the Irish collectors is Seamus Delargy, who did a lot of work here in Clare, mainly in the North West of the county.
He didn't publish much, apart from in the Irish Folklore Journal, Beoloideas, but we have some of his digitised tales, also his excellent article on Irish Storytellers - you are welcome to these.
Jeremiah Curtin is interesting - he was a translator by profession and worked on collections from Eastern Europe as well as Ireland - we have three of his Irish collections and one European.
I had a very strange experience with one of his books.
We had a very overused tatty paperback copy of his 'Irish Folk Tales' so, one afternoon in London while I was working, I dropped into a favourite second-hand bookshop and was delighted to find a first edition at a ridiculously low price.
As it was a beautifully sunny day, I decided to take a cup on tea into Brompton Cemetery, over the road to examine my find.
I was sitting on the grass, leaning on a large tomb and thumbing through the book, when I noticed I was leaning on Jeremiah Curtin's tombstone.
He had died in London and had been buried in Brompton Road Cemetery.
Jim Carroll