Irish Fairy and Folk Tales,9780812968552

Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

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ISBN13: 9780812968552
ISBN10: 0812968557
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-02-11
Publisher(s): Modern Library
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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."

Author Biography

<b>Paul Muldoon</b> is Oxford Professor of Poetry and Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. His recent works include <i>To Ireland, I; Poems 1968–1998;</i> and <i>Moy Sand and Gravel</i>. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Paul Muldoon
Introduction xxiii
William Butler Yeats
IRISH FAIRY AND FOLK TALES
The Trooping Fairies
3(50)
The Fairies
5(2)
Frank Martin and the Fairies
7(5)
The Priest's Supper
12(4)
The Fairy Well of Lagnanay
16(3)
Teig O'Kane and the Corpse
19(17)
Paddy Corcoran's Wife
36(2)
Cusheen Loo
38(1)
The White Trout; A Legend of Cong
39(4)
The Fairy Thorn
43(2)
The Legend of Knockgrafton
45(6)
A Donegal Fairy
51(2)
Changelings
53(15)
The Brewery of Egg-shells
54(3)
The Fairy Nurse
57(1)
Jamie Freel and the Young Lady
58(8)
The Stolen Child
66(2)
The Merrow
68(20)
The Soul Cages
68(15)
Flory Cantillon's Funeral
83(5)
The Solitary Fairies
88(52)
The Lepracaun; or, Fairy Shoemaker
89(3)
Master and Man
92(7)
Far Darrig in Donegal
99(4)
The Pooka
103(1)
The Piper and the Puca
104(3)
Daniel O'Rourke
107(8)
The Kildare Pooka
115(3)
The Banshee
118(1)
How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee
119(3)
A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald
122(2)
The Banshee of the Mac Carthys
124(16)
Ghosts
140(19)
A Dream
141(1)
Grace Connor
142(2)
A Legend of Tyrone
144(2)
The Black Lamb
146(1)
Song of the Ghost
147(2)
The Radiant Boy
149(2)
The Fate of Frank M'Kenna
151(8)
Witches, Fairy Doctors
159(58)
Bewitched Butter (Donegal)
162(2)
A Queen's County Witch
164(4)
The Witch Hare
168(1)
Bewitched Butter (Queen's County)
169(11)
The Horned Women
180(2)
The Witches' Excursion
182(3)
The Confessions of Tom Bourke
185(17)
The Pudding Bewitched
202(15)
T'yeer-na-n-Oge
217(16)
The Legend of O'Donoghue
218(2)
Rent Day
220(3)
Loughleagh (Lake of Healing)
223(7)
Hy-Brasail---The Isle of the Blest
230(1)
The Phantom Isle
231(2)
Saints, Priests
233(16)
The Priest's Soul
234(6)
The Priest of Coloony
240(1)
The Story of the Little Bird
241(3)
Conversion of King Laoghaire's Daughters
244(1)
King O'Toole and His Goose
244(5)
The Devil
249(34)
The Demon Cat
249(2)
The Long Spoon
251(1)
The Countess Kathleen O'Shea
252(4)
The Three Wishes
256(27)
Giants
283(22)
The Giant's Stairs
283(6)
A Legend of Knockmany
289(16)
Kings, Queens, Princesses, Earls, Robbers
305(42)
The Twelve Wild Geese
305(6)
The Lazy Beauty and Her Aunts
311(5)
The Haughty Princess
316(3)
The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla
319(3)
Munachar and Manachar
322(4)
Donald and His Neighbors
326(4)
The Jackdaw
330(3)
The Story of Conn-eda; Or the Golden Apples of Lough Erne
333(14)
Notes 347

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