Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Contes de fées
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
A Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend, and Folklore
Author: Claire BoossPublisher: Gramercy
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Introduce yourself to the noble heroes and magical creatures of Irish mythology. Includes the two definitive works on the subject by the giants of the Irish Renaissance. W.B. Yeates' Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry and Lady Gregory's Cuchulain of Muirthemne.
Author: William Butler YeatsFairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
Author: VariousPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The majority of the tales presented in "Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry" were collected in the nineteenth century by such folklorists as William Allingham, T. Crofton Croker, Douglas Hyde, and Lady Wilde who was the mother of Oscar Wilde. The book transports its readers to the shadowy, twilit world of Celtic myth and legend. There, the mysterious fairy people work their mischief, priests and the devil wage an endless struggle for the souls of humankind, clever wives outwit murderous giants and druids cast spells.
Fairy Tales of Ireland
Author: W. B. YeatsPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008190097
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A magical collection of twenty classic Irish fairy tales by one of Ireland’s greatest writers, the Nobel Prize-winning W. B. Yeats – with intricate, traditional illustrations throughout by P. J. Lynch.
Author: Jacobs
Author: William Butler YeatsMeeting the Other Crowd
Author: Eddie LenihanPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101167335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
"The Other Crowd," "The Good People," "The Wee Folk," and "Them" are a few of the names given to the fairies by the people of Ireland. Honored for their gifts and feared for their wrath, the fairies remind us to respect the world we live in and the forces we cannot see. In these tales of fairy forts, fairy trees, ancient histories, and modern true-life encounters with The Other Crowd, Eddie Lenihan opens our eyes to this invisible world with the passion and bluntness of a seanchai, a true Irish storyteller.
Legends, Charms and Superstitions of Ireland
Author: Lady WildePublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486120767
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Nowhere in the nineteenth century did interest in folklore and mythology have a more thorough revival than in Ireland. There, in 1887, Lady Francesca Speranza Wilde, Oscar Wilde's mother and a well-known author in her own right, compiled this collection of charming, authentic folk tales. Collected from among the peasantry and retaining their original simplicity, the myths and legends reveal delightfully the Irish people's relationship with a spiritual and invisible world populated by fairies, elves, and evil beings. Included in Lady Wilde's collection, among others, are eerie tales of "The Horned Women," "The Holy Well and the Murderer," and "The Bride's Death-Song," as well as beguiling accounts of superstitions concerning the dead, celebrations and rites, animal legends, and ancient charms. The first book to link Irish folklore with nationalism, Legends illustrates the mythic underpinnings of the Irish character and signals the country's cultural reemergence. It remains, said the Evening Mail, "an important contribution to the literature of Ireland and the world's stock of folklore."
Author: W.b. Yeats