Hospitality at wakes and funerals in Ireland from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century: Some evidence from the written record

Folklore

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 403-426

  Lysaght, Patricia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy   (Sweden)

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EID: 42549136815     PISSN: 0015587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0015587032000145405     Document Type: Article

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