Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border: Characters and Community

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agency, 265n1 Aghyaran: about, xvii–xviii; agricultural interdependence, 38–39, 261n5; churches, 32; conceptions of community , 9–12; demographics, 32–36, 261n2; economics, 40–43; emigration , 43–44, 63; geography, maps and features, xvii, xix, xxi, 32; history , 36–47; modernity and change, 48–50, 225–228; perception of wit in, 186, 229–232; seasons in, 30–31; sectarianism, 17–22, 44–47, 234–243; smuggling, 40–42, 49–50 Aghyaran magazine, xvi, 245–246 Ancient Order of Hibernians, 236, 238 anecdotes. See local character anecdotes Anglo-Irish Treaty, 38 Anglo-Irish War (1919–1921), 37 Armagh, 38 audience as co-author, 224 auto-ethnography, 8 B Specials, 39–40, 65, 152–153, 160–161, 254 Baker, Ronald, 95 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 95 Ballymenone, 11, 12, 21 Ballymongan, 3, 35 Ballymongan Museum, xviii Ballymongan-Shanaghy mummers, xxii, 54, 208 Barclay, Jamie, xxii, 55, 57–67 Bauman, Richard, 2, 95, 98 belief, 113–114, 146–147 Ben-Amos, Dan, 10, 259n3, 259n4 Berger, Harris, 14 Black and Tans, 37 Black Francis, 113, 115–116, 264n3. See also Proinsias Dubh Bloody Sunday, 46 Boas, Franz, 7, 258n1 Bogle, Willie, xxi “Bold Frank McHugh” (ballad), 264n3 Bødker, Laurits, 95 Botkin, Benjamin, 95 Boyle, Paddy, 97 Britain. See United Kingdom Brolly, Francie, 178 Brunvand, Jan Harold, 95 Bryson, Aussie, 136 Buffer, The, 120–122 Byrne, Alec, 41, 42, 48, 141, 255, 263n2 Byrne, Barney, 41, 71 Byrne, Joe, 187, 205 Byrne, Maggie, xxii, 210–211, 214, 262n1(ch.3) Byrne, Mickey, xxii, 4, 5, 57, 59, 61–63, 65–66, 74, 110, 112, 152, 157–161, 162, 178–179, 194, 230 Byrne, Paddy*, 193–194 Byrne, Tom*, 193–194 Carncorn AOH Accordion Band, 238–239 Castlederg, xv, 46, 47, 262n6 Index Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations. Proper names followed by an asterisk indicate pseudonyms. 278 • Index Catholic-Protestant divide, 14–15, 257n1; in anecdotes, 253–255; efforts toward cross-community contact, 47–48, 247–248; mixed marriages, 67; moderated through local commemoration , 243–253; Partition and, 38–39, 261n4; Troubles, 44–47, 261–262n6; and wakes, 77. See also identity, sectarian ceilis/ceiliing, xx, 258n6; avoiding potential discord, 68–69; as central social context, 6, 25, 223; characteristics of, 54–56; codding at, 61–62, 112, 262nn2,3; communal space in private homes, 58; equal status of participants , 64; genres of storytelling at, 107–108, 151; Jamie Barclay’s ceili, 57– 67; storytelling and craic, 3, 69–70; tea at, 62–63; and television, 56 Celtic Tiger, 261n2 change. See modernity and change Chapman, Victor, 110 character, in the literary sense, 150–152; flat vs. round characters, 163–164, 206; individual-like type, 166; precedence of typology and theme in, 162–163; pure individual, 166; pure type, 166–167, 177, 199; Shakespeare’s treatment of, 219–220; type-like individual , 166–167, 177, 205–206. character, in the local sense, 26–27; behavioral and psychological attributes, 170–172; as eccentric, 173–185 character types in Aghyaran anecdotes, 7–8, 172–202, 225–232; coarse talker type, 179–180, 225–227; codder type, 190–192, 193, 229–232; farmercapitalist type, 172–173, 176, 225–227; fool type, 7, 194, 200–202, 229–232; good arguer type, 188; hapless farmer type, 173–175, 225–226; “man of words” type, 186–188, 229–232; modest or saintly bachelor type, 7, 88, 97, 208; rough bachelor type, 8, 88, 90, 176–180, 225–227; scapegoat type, 200–202, 229–232; trickster type, 7–8, 192–200, 229–232; uneducated blunderer type, 180–181, 182, 225–227. See also local character anecdotes; personality traits civil rights protests, 44–45 Clarke, Sam, 39 coarse talker type, 179–180, 225–227 cod/codding, 61–62, 112, 262nn2,3 codder type, 190–192, 193, 229–232 collective memory, 8, 87, 231–232, 233–234, 259n4, 265n1 Collins, James Patrick, 57–58, 59, 64, 67 Collins, John, 75 Comhaltas Ceoltori Éireann, 103–105 comic local character anecdotes, 96–97, 105–106, 109, 117; character types in, 171–172, 225, 231–232; vs. jokes, 123, 126, 129, 132, 135–136, 147. See also jokes; local character anecdotes; tall tales commemoration, 15, 28–29; sectarian, 233–243, 260n9; of local past and heritage, 243–251; at wakes, 74, 87–90, 91–93, 150 communication, ethnography of, 7, 259n1 community, local: Aghyaran, 9–10, 12, 255–256; community of the social imaginary, 10, 12; and identity, 12–17; and individuals, 221–222; and rough character types, 226–227; as social network, 11–12; speech community...