The Ulster Tradition

Abstract

There have been few attempts at a broad analysis of .distributional studies in British and Irish folk life. Certainly nothing so far-reaching or stimulating to research as Sir Cyril Fox's Personality of Britain has been to archaeology, has yet appeared for the student of folk life. In part this omission is a function of the retarded state of our subject in Britain and in Ireland. Distributional studies of folk life material have mainly been concentrated on analyses of individual culture-elements, without, all too often, much attempt to relate them to their human context.