Henry Glassie: An outsider's appreciation of Irish culture
Henry Glassie film from Pat Collins.
“Ireland’s glory is verbal”, says the celebrated folklorist Henry Glassie in a new documentary about his work. It was the Irish tradition for conversation and storytelling that brought him to the small Fermanagh town of Ballymenone in 1972, and he ended up living there for a number of years.
Glassie has made it his life’s mission to find and celebrate the art created by everyday people, be they rug makers in a remote Turkish village, potters and statue makers in Salvador, or Irish storytellers.
