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From my project based on the W. B. Yeats book ‘Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry’, this illustration is inspired by the story ‘The Witch Hare’. The tale tells of a person who shoots a hare. The hare immediately disappears but leaves behind a trail of blood. The trail is followed from the scene to a local woman’s house. She claims that the blood is hers and she had wounded her leg chopping wood. © Zara Picken 2013 www.zaraillustrates.com

Here’s Lori Holland’s “Irish Folk Songs for Women,” lending a nod to both Women’s History Month and next week’s St. Patrick’s Day. Miriam Schottland’s block print for the 1960 recording evokes a folk art tradition. The woman's dress and harp mark the album as Irish, while the script and decorative framing suggest early Irish manuscripts. Songs For Women, Irish Folk Songs, Loreena Mckennitt, Irish Folk, Irish Songs, Irish Genealogy, Irish Folklore, Folk Songs, Irish Women

Singer-songwriter Lori Holland’s 1960 album Irish Folk Songs for Women is her effort to compile Irish songs of emotional and experiential significance for female performers. The result, a 14-track album of Holland’s gentle alto accompanied by guitar, includes ballads revealing the feminine ...

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