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9780684829524

Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland

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    9780684829524

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-03-02
  • Publisher: Scribner
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Summary

THE CLASSIC ONE-VOLUME INTRODUCTION TO IRELAND'S RICH FOLKLORE: WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS'S MAGICAL SELECTION OF TRADITIONAL IRISH FAIRY AND FOLK TALESFairy and Folk Tales of Irelandcombines two books of Irish folklore collected and edited by William Butler Yeats --Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry,first published in 1888, andIrish Fairy Tales,published in 1892. In this delightful gathering of legend and song, the familiar characters of Irish myth come to life: the mercurial trooping fairies, as ready to make mischief as to do good; the solitary and industrious Lepracaun and his dissipated cousin, the Cluricaun; the fearsome Pooka, who lives among ruins and has "grown monstrous with much solitude"; and the Banshee, whose eerie wailing warns of death. More than an ambitious and successful effort to preserve the rich heritage of his native land, this volume confirms Yeats's conviction that imagination is the source of both life and art. As Benedict Kiely observes in his foreword, Yeats was seeking "not for the meaning of any mystery but for what he had already determined to find...a world of the imagination...a world that fed on dreaming and not on the painted toy of grey truth."

Author Biography

William Butler Yeats is generally considered to be Ireland's greatest poet, living or dead, and one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Foreword by Benedict Kiely FAIRY AND FOLK TALES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY

Introduction
THE TROOPING FAIRIES

The FairiesFrank 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
The Lepracaun; or, Fairy Shoemaker
Master and Man
Far Darrig in Donegal
The Pooka
The Piper and the Púca
Daniel O'Rourke
The Kildare Pooka
The Banshee
How Thomas Connolly Met the Banshee
A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald
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 (Queen's County)
The Horned Women
The Witches' Excursion
The Confessions of Tom Bourke
The Pudding Bewitched

TÍR-NA-N-OG

The Legend of O'Donoghue
Rent-Day
Loughleagh (Lake of Healing)
Hy-Brasail -- The Isle of the Blest
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 Countess 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
Notes

Some Authorities on Irish Folk-lore

IRISH FAIRY TALES

Note
Introduction

LAND AND WATER FAIRIES

The Fairies' Dancing-place
The Rival Kempers
The Young Piper
A Fairy Enchantment
Teigue of the Lee
The Fairy Greyhound
The Lady of Gollerus

EVIL SPIRITS

The Devil's Mill
Fergus O'Mara and the Air-demons
The Man Who Never Knew Fear

CATS

Seanchan the Bard and the King of the Cats
Owney and Owney-na-Peak

KINGS AND WARRIORS

The Knighting of Cuculain
The Little Weaver of Duleek Gate

APPENDIX

Classification of Irish Fairies
Authorities on Irish Folk-lore

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