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This handsome hardback edition presents Yeat's enthralling tales from Ireland's oral history, with delightful illustrations, gilded page edges and a striking gold-embossed cover design.
One of Ireland's greatest writers, the Nobel-prize winner W. B. Yeats was fascinated by the myths and folklore of his native country. Compiled by Yeats in 1892, these stories were collected around the country by a variety of historians, including Lady Wilde, the mother of Oscar Wilde.
Within these pages, you'll discover tales of greedy sons who get their comeuppance, canny priests, evil witches and demons alongside legends of heroic kings, giants and, of course, the good folk themselves - the fairies, the leprechauns and the cluricauns. By turns charming and scary, these are yarns that have passed down through generations and which are still as entertaining and magical as when they were first recalled.
This cloth-look hardback edition features beautiful illustrations, ivory pages and patterned endpapers, making a wonderful gift or keepsake for any literature lover.
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Contents
Introduction
THE TROOPING FAIRIES
The Fairies
Frank Martin and the Fairies
The Priest's Supper
The Fairy Well of Lagnanay
Teig O'Kane and the Corpse
Paddy Corcoran's Wife
Cusheen Loo
The White Trout; A Legend of Cong
The Fairy Thorn
The Legend of Knockgrafton
A Donegal Fairy
CHANGELINGS
The Brewery of Egg-shells
The Fairy Nurse
Jamie Freel and the Young Lady
The Stolen Child
THE MERROW
The Soul Cages
Flory Cantillon's Funeral
THE SOLITARY FAIRIES
Lepracaun, Cluricaun, Far Darrig
i) The Lepracaun; or Fairy Shoemaker
ii) Master and Man
iii) Far Darrig in Donegal
The Pooka
i) The Piper and the Puca
ii) Daniel O' Rourke
iii) The Kildare Pooka
The Banshee
i) How Thomas Connolly Met the Banshee
ii) A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald
iii) The Banshee of the Mac Carthys
GHOSTS
A Dream
Grace Connor
A Legend of Tyrone
The Black Lamb
Song of the Ghost
The Radiant Boy
The Fate of Frank M'Kenna
WITCHES, FAIRY DOCTORS
Bewitched Butter (Donegal)
A Queen's County Witch
The Witch Hare
Bewitched Butter (Donegal)
The Horned Woman
The Witches' Excursion
The Confessions of Tom Bourke
The Pudding Bewitched
T'YEER-NA-A-N-OGE
The Legend of O'Donoghue
Rent-Day
Loughleagh (Lake of Healing)
Hy-Brasail - The Isle of the Beast
The Phantom Isle
SAINTS, PRIESTS
The Priest's Soul
The Priest of Coloony
The Story of the Little Bird
Conversion of King Laoghaire's Daughters
King O'Toole and his Goose
THE DEVIL
The Demon Cat
The Long Spoon
The Countless Kathleen O'Shea
The Three Wishes
GIANTS
The Giant's Stairs
A Legend of Knockmany
KINGS, QUEENS, PRINCESSES, EARLS, ROBBERS
The Twelve Wild Geese
The Lazy Beauty and her Aunts
The Haughty Princess
The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla
Munachar and Manachar
Donald and his Neighbours
The Jackdaw
The Story of Conn-eda
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