A book that documents the Irish folk history of furze (also known as gorse in England and textbooks). The plant has a rich history in folk usage as a material for hedging and fires, but went out of use in the mid-1800s. Lucas studied the folklore archive at University College Dublin and put together this amazing anthology in 1960 that catalogues the many entangled histories of the plant with people in Ireland. It is a remarkable document even today, and a great research project. It is quite technical for long stretches, quoting the archive from different places in Ireland, so maybe not a book for everyone but a wonderful piece of archival research nonetheless.