Foreword: Not the Same Old Story / Angela Bourke
Collectors and collections
1. From product to process: The emergence of the National Folklore Collection / Kelly Fitzgerald
2. Beyond full time collecting: The contribution of one part time collector to the National folklore collection / Ríonach uí Ógáin
3. 'An almost untilled field: Pádraig Mac Gréine, Annie Power and Béaloideas / Paul Delaney
Writing folklore
4. Adding sparkle to the dry details: Folkloric themes, tales and tangents in the work of Anna Maria Fielding Hall / Marian Thérèse Keyes
5. Mary Battle and W. B. Yeats - from folklore to Gesamtlebenswerk / John Dillon
6. Folk practice and belief in the short stories of Patrick Pearse / Anne Markey
Literary innovation and cultural adaptation
7. Folklore and writing for children in twentieth-century Ireland: Padraic Colum, Patricia Lynch and Eilís Dillon / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
8. Spent in the telling: Peig Sayers and her life / Irene Lucchitti
9. 'With a faery hand in hand': W. B. Yeats, Marina Tsvetayeva, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and the Uses of Folklore / Bríona Nic Dhiarmada
10. Athbheatha na nAmhrán [The second life of song]: Traditional song in modern Gaeltacht prose writing / Máirín Nic Eoin
Continuity, variation and influence
11. The 'Anxiety of Influence'? 'Petticoat Loose' and questions of adaptation, attribution, contextualisation and interpretation / Anne O'Connor
12. The Caoineadh, psychoanalytic theory, and contemporary Irish writing: Anne Enright's The Gathering / Margaret O'Neill
13. 'Some hardcore storytelling': Uses of folklore by contemporary Irish writers / Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Afterword: A world of thirteen acres: Folklore as source and inspiration / Vincent Woods.
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Folklore and modern Irish writing. ISBN 9780716532637. Published by Irish Academic Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
