Research Catalog

Title

Irish fairy and folk tales / edited, and with an introduction by William Butler Yeats ; foreword by Paul Muldoon.

Publication

New York : Modern Library, c2003.

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Additional Authors

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

Description

xxxii, 355 p. : music; 21 cm.

Summary

Gathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection uniquely capture the rich heritage of the Celtic imagination. Filled with legends of village ghosts, fairies, demons, witches, priests, and saints, these stories evoke both tender pathos and lighthearted mirth and embody what Yeats describes as "the very voice of the people, the very pulse of life." "The impact of these tales doesn't stop with Yeats, or Joyce, or Oscar Wilde," writes Paul Muldoon in his Foreword, "for generations of readers in Ireland and throughout the world have found them flourishing like those persistent fairy thorns."--Publisher description.

Series Statement

Modern Library classics

Uniform Title

Modern Library classics.

Subject

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

Note

• Originally published: New York : Boni and Liveright, 1918, in series: The Modern library of the world's best books.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 355).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Paul Muldoon -- Introduction / William Butler Yeats -- 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 -- The Brewery of Egg-shells -- The Fairy Nurse -- Jamie Freel and the Young Lady -- The Stolen Child -- The Soul Cages -- Flory Cantillon's Funeral -- The Lepracaun; or, Fairy Shoemaker -- Master and Man -- Far Darrig in Donegal -- The Pooka -- The Piper and the Puca -- 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 -- A Dream -- Grace Connor -- A Legend of Tyrone -- The Black Lamb -- Song of the Ghost -- The Radiant Boy -- The Fate of Frank M'Kenna -- 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 -- The Legend of O'Donoghue -- Rent Day -- Loughleagh (Lake of Healing) -- Hy-Brasail -- The Isle of the Blest -- The Phantom Isle -- 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 Demon Cat -- The Long Spoon -- The Countess Kathleen O'Shea -- The Three Wishes -- The Giant's Stairs -- A Legend of Knockmany -- 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; Or the Golden Apples of Lough Erne.

ISBN

• 0812968557 (pbk.)
• 9780812968552 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library