The Peace Egg Book: an Anglo-Irish chapbook connection discovered. (Research article: focus on traditional drama).

From: Folklore | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: Cass, Eddie; Preston, Michael J.; Smith, Paul | Copyright information

Abstract

This article reports on the discovery of a copy of The Peace Egg Book, a previously unknown chapbook printed in Manchester, UK. The chapbook, which has an Irish text, is set within the contexts of printing and of the Irish community in mid-nineteenth-century Manchester. The textual links between The Peace Egg Book and the Belfast Christmas Rhime Books are analysed, as are the parallels to an Irish-influenced oral tradition set out in a manuscript of 1842. The a...

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