Have you found a legal copy of MacNeill’s work? Or have you attended a modern Lughnasa gathering? Let me know in the comments below.
But beyond the popularized recipes for soda bread and the romanticized images of bonfires, there is a single, monolithic text that serves as the bedrock for all serious study of this festival. That text is the festival of lughnasa maire macneill pdf
While not a PDF of MacNeill’s book, the National Folklore Collection (Dúchas.ie) provides the raw data MacNeill used. You can read the original handwritten manuscripts from schoolchildren in the 1930s that describe Lughnasa celebrations. MacNeill’s book acts as the index and analysis for these archives. Have you found a legal copy of MacNeill’s work
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