Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
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The Nobel-Prize winning poet—William Butler Yeats—has included almost every sort of Irish folk tale in this entertaining and comprehensive collection of fairy tales and songs first released in 1892. Irish folk and fairy tales describe a world where the cycles of love, pain, and death are interrupted by magic. Includes tales of the Banshee, the fish-tailed Merrow, more. These colorful gems are sure to beguile even the most serious of readers. Irish or not, you'll be enchanted by these timeless tales. 416pp.
ForewordIntroductionThe Fairies5Frank Martin and the Fairies7The Priest's Supper12The Fairy Well of Lagnanay16Teig O'Kane and the Corpse19Paddy Corcoran's Wife36Cusheen Loo38The White Trout; A Legend of Cong39The Fairy Thorn43The Legend of Knockgrafton45A Donegal Fairy51The Brewery of Egg-shells54The Fairy Nurse57Jamie Freel and the Young Lady58The Stolen Child66The Soul Cages68Flory Cantillon's Funeral83The Lepracaun; or, Fairy Shoemaker89Master and Man92Far Darrig in Donegal99The Pooka103The Piper and the Puca104Daniel O'Rourke107The Kildare Pooka115The Banshee118How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee119A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald122The Banshee of the Mac Carthys124A Dream141Grace Connor142A Legend of Tyrone144The Black Lamb146Song of the Ghost147The Radiant Boy149The Fate of Frank M'Kenna151Bewitched Butter (Donegal)162A Queen's County Witch164The Witch Hare168Bewitched Butter (Queen's County)169The Horned Women180The Witches' Excursion182The Confessions of Tom Bourke185The Pudding Bewitched202The Legend of O'Donoghue218Rent Day220Loughleagh (Lake of Healing)223Hy-Brasail - The Isle of the Blest230The Phantom Isle231The Priest's Soul234The Priest of Coloony240The Story of the Little Bird241Conversion of King Laoghaire's Daughters244King O'Toole and His Goose244The Demon Cat249The Long Spoon251The Countess Kathleen O'Shea252The Three Wishes256The Giant's Stairs283A Legend of Knockmany289The Twelve Wild Geese305The Lazy Beauty and Her Aunts311The Haughty Princess316The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla319Munachar and Manachar322Donald and His Neighbors326The Jackdaw330The Story of Conn-eda; Or the Golden Apples of Lough Erne333Notes347
