Patricia Lysaght

Patricia Lysaght, a native of west Clare, is Professor emerita of European Ethnology, University College Dublin. She is an elected member of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy, Uppsala, Sweden, and the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. Her many book publications include The Banshee (1986; 2nd edition 1996) and A Pocket Book of the Banshee (1998). She has written extensively on folklore collecting by the Irish Folklore Commission (Coimisi�n B�aloideasa �ireann) in her native county, and...See more

Patricia Lysaght, a native of west Clare, is Professor emerita of European Ethnology, University College Dublin. She is an elected member of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy, Uppsala, Sweden, and the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. Her many book publications include The Banshee (1986; 2nd edition 1996) and A Pocket Book of the Banshee (1998). She has written extensively on folklore collecting by the Irish Folklore Commission (Coimisi�n B�aloideasa �ireann) in her native county, and continues by her work to cast light on the storytellers and their stories, and on their warm generosity and cultural patriotism in the evolving Ireland of the first half of the twentieth century See less