30 Sep 2015
“JOHN KELLY THE FISHERMAN OF BALDRINE”
by Stephen Miller, Vienna 2015
Mona Douglas was always mindful to name names when it came to mentioning those from whom she collected whether it was folkore, song, or dance. To follow up on these individuals is, however, difficult. Unlike the singers found in the 1890s by the Gill brothers, Dr John Clague, and A.W. Moore, and those later by Sophia Morrison and Jospehine Kermode in the 1900s, where the census records for that period is available, with Mona we are pitched forward into the 1920s—and arguably the 1930s as well—for the period in which she was active in collecting. As the latest census to which there is access is the one for 1911 there is a clear problem then in trying to identify just who her informants were.
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