In the time of the Troubles, when bombs blew through the night and
soldiers prowled down the roads, Henry Glassie came to the Irish
borderland to learn how country people endure through history. He
settled into the farming community of Ballymenone, beside Lough
Erne in the County Fermanagh, and listened to the old people. For a
decade he heard and recorded the stories and songs in which they
outlined their culture, recounted their history, and pictured their
world. In their view, their world was one of love, defeat, and
uncertainty, demanding the virtues of endurance: faith, bravery,
and wit. Glassie's task in this book is to set the scene, to sketch
the backdrop and clear the stage, so that Hugh Nolan and Michael
Boyle, Peter Flanagan, Ellen Cutler, and their neighbors can tell
their own tale, which explains their conditions and converts them
into a tragedy of conflict and a comedy of the absurd. It gathers
the saints and warriors, and celebrates the stars whose wit enabled
endurance in days of violence and deprivation. With patience and
respect, Glassie describes life in a time and a place exactly like
no other, and yet Ballymenone is like a thousand other places where
people work on the land during the day and tell their own tales at
night, forgotten, while the men of power fill the newspapers and
history books by sending poor boys out to be killed. The Stars of
Ballymenone is an integrated analysis of the complete repertory of
verbal art from a rural community where storytelling and singing of
quality remained a part of daily life.
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