Evidence of how Imbolc was celebrated in Gaelic Ireland is found in medieval Irish texts that mention the festival, besides folklore collected during the 19th and early 20th century in rural Ireland and the Scottish Highlands.

Among those influenced were the Russian Alexander Afanasyev ( first published in 1866 ), the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe ( first published in 1845 ), the Romanian Petre Ispirescu ( first published in 1874 ), the English Joseph Jacobs ( first published in 1890 ), and Jeremiah Curtin, an American who collected Irish tales ( first published in 1890 ).

Lord Kildare collected an army of Irish soldiers under the command of Thomas Geraldine.

Revenue is collected by An Post, the Irish postal service.

See the Lives in the Dictionary of National Biography and in Biographia Britannica ( Kippis ), with authorities there collected ; Essex's Irish correspondence is in the Stow Collection in the British Library, Nos.

At least 220 tunes which survive to this day are attributed to him, though most were not published or even written down in his lifetime ; they survived in the repertories of fiddlers, pipers and the last of the old Irish harpers and were collected and published piecemeal in the late 18th and 19th centuries.

The son of Thomas Shadwell, Charles Shadwell was the author of The Fair Quaker of Deal, Irish Hospitality, or, Virtue Rewarded, and other plays, collected and published in 1720.

In 1960 Glazer began writing articles about ethnic groups in New York City, and these would eventually be collected and published in 1963 as the book Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City, arguably Glazer's most well-known work.

Edward Bunting collected some of the last-known Irish harp tunes at the Belfast Harp Festival in 1792.

He was an active member of the Royal Irish Academy and collected and rescued many examples of Irish traditional music.

Previous to the 1949 reforms, statistics were collected by the Statistics Branch of Department of Industry and Commerce on the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922.

In Irish mythology, the Donn Cuailnge (" Brown Bull of Cooley ") plays a central role in the epic Táin Bó Cuailnge (" The Cattle-Raid of Cooley ") which features the hero Cú Chulainn, which were collected in the 7th century CE Lebor na hUidre (" Book of the Dun Cow ").

From 1 April 1923, as regards the Irish Free State, Irish land revenues have been collected and administered by the Irish government.

In 1999 Hunt sought a job of writer-in-residence at Dublin ’ s Mountjoy Prison and later collected selected writings from the prisoners and edited The Junk Yard: Voices From An Irish Prison.

The song was first collected in Donegal by Longford poet Padraic Colum and musicologist Herbert Hughes, and published by Boosey & Hawkes in London in a work entitled Irish Country Songs in 1909.

Tunney himself collected one version from an Irish singer called Barney McGarvey.

The book " If You're A Wee Bit Irish: a chart of old Irish families collected from folk tradition " by William Durning ( 1978 ) recounts an alleged ancestry of Caoilte back to Adam.

:" Ogygia, or a Chronological account of Irish Events ( collected from Very Ancient Documents faithfully compared with each other & supported by the Genealogical & Chronological Aid of the Sacred and Profane Writings of the Globe "

* Terence MacSwiney's writings Principles of Freedom are collected from Irish Freedom ( 1911 – 12 ) and published posthumously.

He collected the funds for the establishment of the Irish College of St Isidore in Rome, for the education of Irish priests, opened 24 June 1625, with four lecturers -— Anthony O ' Hicidh of a famous literary family in Thomond, Martin Breathnach from Donegal, Patrick Fleming from Louth, and John Ponce from Cork.

Kirk had long been researching fairies, and the book collected several personal accounts and stories of folk who claimed to have encountered them.

He collected first in the Carpathian Basin ( the then-Kingdom of Hungary ), where he notated Hungarian, Slovakian, Romanian and Bulgarian folk music.

As well as making original compositions, Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them.

Finnish folk poetry was first written down in the 17th century and collected by hobbyists and scholars through the following centuries.

* The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin: Stories, jests, and donkey tales of the beloved Persian folk hero, collected and retold by Ron Suresha

Veneration of Njörðr survived into 18th or 19th century Norwegian folk practice, as recorded in a tale collected by Halldar O. Opedal from an informant in Odda, Hordaland, Norway.

Early folk song collectors also often collected ( what were now known as ) nursery rhymes, including in Scotland Sir Walter Scott and in Germany Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim in Des Knaben Wunderhorn ( 1806 – 1808 ).

Contemporary critics were divided in their view of the work's authenticity, but most now believe that Macpherson framed the poems himself, based old folk tales he had collected.

The popularity of the Grimms ' collected folk tales endured well beyond their lifetimes.

Polish folk music was collected in the 19th century by Oskar Kolberg, as part of a wave of Polish national revival.

This is one of the most melodious Czech lullabies, first collected by Karel Jaromír Erben ( 1811 – 1870 ), Czech romantic writer, poet and collector of Czech folk songs and fairy tales.

He wrote books on German grammar, collected folk songs, and learned Sanskrit.

With the arrival of the printing press a process begins in which folk yarns and legends are collected within a frame story and then mass published.

Equally noteworthy is Music Bureau poetry ( yuefu ), collected and presumably refined popular lyrics from folk music.

The oral tradition of story telling and folklore has survived and the early missionaries collected folk tales.

Yanagita disliked the word, a coined term directly translated from " folktale " ( Yanagita stated that the term was not familiar to actual old folk he collected folktales from, and was not willing to " go along " with the conventions of other countries ).

A group of American archivists and researchers that included John A. Lomax, his son Alan Lomax, poet Carl Sandburg, musician and activist Pete Seeger and others collected, recorded, and published old ballads, prison songs, Appalachian folk music and black blues.

This book is a reconstruction of the life of Rani Lakshmi Bai from extensive research of both historical documents ( collected mostly by G. C. Tambe, grandson of the Queen ) and folk tales, poetry and oral tradition ; the original in Bengali was published in 1956 ; the English translation by Seagull Books, Calcutta, 2000, ISBN 8170461758.

The wealth of folk poetry collected in the 19th century often deals with pre-Christian pagan themes, and has allowed scholars to study Finnish mythology in more detail.

He collected Moroccan folk music.

As well as making original compositions, Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them.

Popular folk songs included emigration songs from the 19th century, work songs and songs of apprentices, as well as democracy-oriented folk songs collected in the 1950s by Wolfgang Steinitz.

Many of the folk songs performed by these musicians was collected by Cobi Schreijer and Ate Doornbosch, the latter of whom broadcast them on his radio program Onder de groene linde ( Under the green lime ).

Bartók collected folk songs from across Eastern Europe, including Romania and Slovakia, whilst Kodály was more interested in creating a distinctively Hungarian musical style.