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Caoine Spaces for vocalising grief. The de-ritualisation and re-ritualisation of keening in contemporary Ireland
(Master thesis, 2014)In this master’s thesis I investigate the trajectory over time of the cultural practice of keening (the Irish funeral cry) – an improvised, sung oral poetry combined with choruses of wailing cries, performed at wakes and ...