IDNO

P.9693.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Hunting the wren. Taking the wren round. Cork.

Photograph of Hall’s book illustration of a crowd of people ‘hunting the wren’ in Cork. The ceremony of ‘hunting the wren’ is carried out on St Stephen’s Day by the local ‘wren boys’. The wren bush is a structure of evergreens, covered with streamers and with the dead bird hung up or in a sort of cage. [JD 29/10/2008]

Place

Europe British Isles; Ireland; Cork

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Hall, Samuel Carter [Original Artist]

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort

Date

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Bibliographical Reference: Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), Hall's Ireland: Mr & Mrs Hall's tour of 1840. (published in 3 vols as Ireland. London : Hall, Virtue, and Co., 1841). [JD 29/10/2008]

Bibliographical Reference: ‘A Folklore Survey of County Clare’, by Thos. J. Westorpp, Folklore © 1911 Folklore Enterprises, Ltd. [JD 29/10/2008]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 29/10/2008]