Research Catalog

Title

Irish fairy and folk tales / edited by W.B. Yeats.

Author

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.

Publication

New York : AMS Press, 1979.

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Details

Description

xviii, 351 pages; 19 cm

Summary

Includes tales of fairies, changelings, ghosts, witches, saints, the devil, giants, kings, queens, and robbers.

Subjects

• Fairy tales
• Ireland
• Fairy tales > Ireland
• Folklore > Ireland
• Tales > Ireland

Note

• Reprint of the 1918 ed. published by Boni and Liveright, New York, in series: The modern library of the world's best books.

Contents

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. The lepracaun; or, fairy shoemaker -- Master and man -- Far Darrig in Donegal -- The piper and the puca -- Daniel O'Rourke -- The Kildare pooka -- 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 -- T'Yeer-na-n-oge. 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 neighbors -- The Jackdaw -- The story of Conn-eda.

Call Number

JFC 16-379

ISBN

• 0404153763
• 9780404153762

LCCN

76042702

OCLC

4570713

Author

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.

Title

Irish fairy and folk tales / edited by W.B. Yeats.

Imprint

New York : AMS Press, 1979.

Edition

1st AMS ed.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Other Form:

Online version: Yeats, W.B. (William Butler), 1865-1939. Irish fairy and folk tales. 1st AMS ed. New York : AMS Press, 1979 (OCoLC)579406784

Research Call Number

JFC 16-379