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Title

Laois folk tales / Nuala Hayes ; illustrated by Rita Duffy.

Author

Hayes, Nuala.

Publication

Dublin : The History Press Ireland, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

Duffy, Rita.

Description

192 pages : illustrations; 20 cm

Summary

From miracle-working saints and shape-shifting witches to silent ghosts and wailing banshees, County Laois is teeming with folk tales and a selection of the best, drawn from historical sources and interviews, have been brought to life here by storyteller by Nuala Hayes.

Subject

• Folklore
• Folklore > Ireland > Laois
• Ireland > Laois (County)
• Laois (Ireland) > Folklore

Genre/Form

Folklore

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-190).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The origin story of Laois -- Fionn MacCumhaill and the salmon of knowledge -- Fionn and his sliotar -- The birth of Oisín -- Fionn MacCumhaill and the House of Death -- Fionn and the Leix giant -- The third gate at Rossnacreena -- The banshee from the mountains -- The red fairy of Grantstown -- The bewitched butter -- Biddy Aghaboe -- Kind, little women -- Moll Anthony of the Red Hills -- The stolen child -- The bacach rua -- Our Kitty -- stories of strange cats -- The tailor -- Clopook -- Caoch the piper -- Four saints and the Book of Leinster -- The man from Laois who became Pope -- The white lady of Durrow -- The ballad of James Delaney -- Bloody battles -- Frank Fogarty and the Pass of the Plumes -- The Battle of the Button, which led to Clontarf -- Tall tales from Timahoe -- A strange foreboding -- Tales from Cadamstown -- Tales from Neilstown -- The tales of Dan Culleton -- The tales of Mick Dowling -- The tales of Jenny McGlynn -- David Norris.

ISBN

• 9780750965682 (electronic bk.)
• 0750965681 (electronic bk.)
• 1845888669 (Paper)
• 9781845888664 (Paper)

LCCN

^^2015464096

OCLC

• 919074789
• SCSB-11096092

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library