The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #164112   Message #3927090
Posted By: Jim Carroll
25-May-18 - 02:42 PM
Thread Name: How reliable is Folk History ?
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: How reliable is Folk History ?
"If not I suggest that you are in no position to comment on peer review."
How bleedin' elitist is that!!!
Go and find one of your desk-jockeys who has spent thirty to forty years in the field interviewing the people who lived in the areas where these events took place and who absorbed the stories from their forebears
A large number of these recordings are now part of the British Library Collection and in the next few months will be housed at Limerick University for future generations to be 'misinformed'
Academic snobbery really does get up my nose
I've spent best part of a lifetime pursuing this information because I enjoy doing so - not because somebody pays me to do it
Jim Carroll