As I already mentioned, this island is special for many reasons. It stands up by it's special position, natural characteristic and an early life on it. The material remains testify the early colonisation of the island Žirje since the pre-historical time, also it has been mentioned in the written documents J. Šižgorić and A. Fortis and in other preserved documents about Croatian history. As much as the history of Žirje trought centuries has been interesting and amaizing, so is sad the picute of how the life on the island looks today. Because, every year less and less people live on Žirje. During the last decade a child hasn't been born on the island, and the school has been closed since a long time ago. Visiting the island in winter, there are less then hundred inhabitants, and in the summer it's a bit more crowded by tourists or people that come on vacations. That love and dadication to his people, language, culture, nation and home has always been the characteristic of the inhabitants from Žirje. I hope that the beautiful island of Žirje will live again, and in the way that the inhabitants of Žirje have done and lived during the centuries, preserving the beauties of the nature and culture. With this thesis, I hope, I gave even a small contribution in preserving the Croatian oral literature of the island of Žirje.