Patrick Weston Joyce
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Patrick Weston Joyce (1827-1914) was born in Ballyorgan in the Ballyhoura Mountains, on the borders of County Limerick and County Cork in Ireland. Soon afterwards, however, the family moved to Glenosheen. Robert Dwyer Joyce was a younger brother. Joyce was a native Irish speaker educated at a hedge school.
Joyce started work in 1845 with the Board of National Education. He produced many works on the history of Ireland and other works such as On the Old Celtic Romances, Irish Grammar, and the English Language in Ireland. His most enduring work is the pioneering The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places.
Patrick Weston Joyce was President of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland from 1906 to 1908, an association of which he was a member from 1865.
Joyce was a key cultural figure of his time. His wide interests included the Irish language, Hiberno-English, music, education, Irish literature and folklore, Irish history and antiquities, place-names and much else. He was principal of the Training College, Marlborough Street, in Dublin from 1874 to 1893.
The P.W. Joyce Collection at the Cregan Library in St Patricks' College, Drumcondra, Dublin, reflects many of Joyce's interests and includes many rarities. These include autographed presentation copies by P.W. Joyce or his brother Robert Dwyer Joyce or books from P.W. Joyce's own library.
The collection also contains nine manuscripts associated with P.W. Joyce or his family members, including a very fine manuscript in Joyce's hand of Echtra Cormaic itir Tairngiri agus Ceart Claíd Cormaic (Adventures of Cormac in the Land of Promise) -- a passage from the Book of Ballymote which Joyce translated into English.
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- Old Irish Folk Music, 1909, 842 airs, partly from the Forde and Pigot collections.
- Irish peasant Songs
- Irish Music and Song
