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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Caoineadh"”.
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Reimagining keening: an examination of the reinvention of Irish lament as a healing tool in the contemporary world
… tradition known as keening (from the Irish caoineadh, meaning "to cry"). Keening has declined as a funerary practice since the early twentieth century but is now being reimagined in contemporary Ireland as a healing practice in workshops and retreats. Through ethnographic fieldwork …
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Waking the dead: funerary performance, classical appropriation, and gendered embodiment on the early Abbey stage
… refer to two such vernacular traditions: the caoineadh and the Irish wake. This study analyzes plays produced by the Abbey theatre during its formative years that intermingle observations of vernacular funerary performances in rural Ireland with ancient Greek precedents. I argue that this …