Irish Folktales Author:Henry Glassie (Editor) Robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic, this collection of 125 lively tales tells the story of Ireland. Spanning the centuries from the first wars of the ancient Irish kings through the Celtic Renaissance of Yeats to our own time, they are set in cities, villages, fields and forestsfrom the wild Gaelic western coast to the modern streets of Dubl... more »in and Belfast.
The old story. The legend of Knockfierna --
Finn and his men bewitched --
The king of Ireland's son. Faith. The baptism of Conor MacNessa --
Saint Patrick --
Saint Patrick on Inishmore --
Saint Patrick and Crom Dubh --
Saint Brigit --
Saint Columcille --
Columcille's coffin --
Saint Kevin --
Saint Finbar --
James Murray and Saint Martin --
The best road to heaven --
The man from Kilmacoliver --
The pious man --
An actual saint --
Old thorns and old priests --
Priests and farming men --
Saved by the priest --
The doom --
The right cure --
Hell and heaven --
The wolf's prophecy. Wit. The three questions --
The farmer's answers --
Half a blanket --
The shadow of the glen --
A hungry hired boy --
The first mirror --
Robin's escape --
Jonathan Swift, dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral --
Daniel O'Connell --
Owen Roe O'Sullivan --
Robert Burns --
Terry the Grunter --
Thomas Moore and the tramp --
John Brodison and the policeman --
A big potato --
The fox and the ranger --
The horse's last drunk --
Hare and hound --
Sleepy Pendoodle --
A medical expert from Lisnaskea --
George Armstrong's return --
The lawyer and the devil --
Coals on the devil's hearth. Mystery. No man goes beyond his day --
A light tokens the death of Mr. Corrigan --
A clock taken --
The banshee cries for the O'Briens --
The banshee cries for the Boyles --
Experience of the banshee --
Grandfather's ghost --
Terrible ghosts --
The soldier in the haunted house --
Daniel Crowley and the ghosts --
Ghosts along the Arney --
The grave of his fathers --
The coffin --
The capture of Bridget Purcell --
Taken --
How the shoemaker saved his wife --
The mountain elf --
Inishkeen's on fire --
The blood of Adam --
We had one of them in the house for a while --
Fairy property --
The blacksmith of bedlam and the fairy host --
Fairy forths --
Gortdonaghy forth --
The fairies ride from Gortdonaghy to Drumane --
Lanty's new house --
Jack and the cluricaune --
Bridget and the lurikeen --
Fairy tales --
The fairy shilling --
The breaking of the forth --
Dreams of gold --
The castle's treasure --
The air is full of them --
The feet water --
The fairy rabbit and the blessed earth of Tory --
The cats' judgment --
Never ask a cat a question --
Cats are queer articles --
Tom Moore and the seal woman --
The swine of the gods --
A pig on the road from Gort --
The crookened back --
Maurice Griffin the fairy doctor --
Biddy Early --
The black art --
Magical theft --
Paudyeen O'Kelly and the weasel --
One queer experience --
Many a one saw what we saw. History. The old times in Ireland --
The bath of the white cows --
The Battle of the Ford of Biscuits --
Cromwell --
Cromwell's Bible --
Patrick Sarsfield --
Sarsfield surrenders and Rory takes to the hills --
Black Francis --
Shan Bernagh --
Willie Brennan --
Wicklow in the rising of 1798 --
The famine --
Victory in the time of famine --
Ruined by poetry. Fireside tales. The birth of Finn MacCumhail --
The high king of Lochlann and the Fenians of Erin --