The Folklore Of Ireland

Author : Henry Glassie
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307828247
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Folk Tales written by Henry Glassie and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are 125 magnificent folktales collected from anthologies and journals published from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with tales of the ancient times and continuing through the arrival of the saints in Ireland in the fifth century, the periods of war and family, the Literary Revival championed by William Butler Yeats, and the contemporary era, these robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic stories of kings, ghosts, fairies, treasures, enchanted nature, and witchcraft are set in cities, villages, fields, and forests from the wild western coast to the modern streets of Dublin and Belfast. Edited by Henry Glassie With black-and-white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

Author : Claire Booss
Publisher : Gramercy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend, and Folklore written by Claire Booss and published by Gramercy. This book was released on 1986 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Marie Heaney
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 057117518X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over Nine Waves written by Marie Heaney and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-07-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Journalist Marie Heaney skillfully revives the glory of ancient Irish storytelling in this comprehensive volume from the great pre-Christian sequences to the more recent tales of the three patron saints Patrick, Brigid, and Colmcille."--Publisher's description.

Author : Niall Mac Coitir
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848895259
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland's Animals written by Niall Mac Coitir and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niall Mac Coitir provides a comprehensive look at the folklore, legends and history of animals in Ireland, and describes their relations with people, being hunted for food, fur, sport, or as vermin, and their position today. A final section, inspired by stories of animal transformation, looks at twelve animals and how we can enrich our lives by visualising ourselves with their special qualities. This fascinating and beautifully illustrated compilation of folklore, legends and natural history will delight all with an interest in Ireland's animals.

Author : Daragh Smyth
Publisher : Merrion Press
ISBN 13 : 1788551370
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earthing the Myths written by Daragh Smyth and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ireland, the link between place and myth is strong, and there is no more enlightening way to understand the rich tapestry of Irish mythology, and its relationship to our true history, than by reading the landscape. Earthing the Myths is an engaging and exhaustive county-by-county guide to the vast number of fascinating places in Ireland connected to myth, folklore and early history. Covering the period 800 BC to AD 650, this book spans the Late Bronze Age, the Iron Age and the early Christian period, and explores the ways in which the land evolved, and with it our catalogue of myths and legends. Smyth chronicles sites the length and breadth of the country, where druids, fairies, goddesses, warriors and kings all left their mark, in tales both real and imagined. With over one thousand locations recorded, from Rathlin Island to the Beara Peninsula, Earthing the Myths breathes life into places throughout Ireland that find their origins in our pre-Christian and pre-Gaelic past, and shows that they still possess unique wisdom and vibrant energy.

Author : Augusta Gregory
Publisher : New Island Books
ISBN 13 : 9781848408128
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Myths and Legends written by Augusta Gregory and published by New Island Books. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully designed new hardback edition of Lady Gregory's definitive collection of Irish myths and Legends, from the Tuatha Dé Danaan to the Fianna.

Author : Lady Wilde
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486120767
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legends, Charms and Superstitions of Ireland written by Lady Wilde and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Padraic Colum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780517189849
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treasury of Irish Folklore written by Padraic Colum and published by . This book was released on 1997-09 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Scott
Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780751512427
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Myths and Legends written by Michael Scott and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1992 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the epic Irish legend of Cuchulain to tales of banshees, leprechauns and wizards, these short stories and fables cover a wide range of Ireland's mythology and legends, forming a companion volume to Michael Scott's Irish Folk and Fairy Tales.

Author : Sean O'Sullivan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022637517X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folktales of Ireland written by Sean O'Sullivan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few countries can boast such a plentitude of traditional folktales as Ireland. In 1935, the creation of The Irish Folklore Commission set in motion the first organized efforts of collecting and studying a multitude of folktales, both written as well as those of the Irish oral tradition. The Commission has collected well over a million pages of manuscripts. Folktales of Ireland offers chief archivist Sean O'Sullivan's representation of this awe-inspiring collection. These tales represent the first English language collection of Gaelic folktales. "Without doubt the finest group of Irish tales that has yet been published in English."—The Guardian "O'Sullivan writes out of an intimacy with his subject and an instinctive grasp of the language of the originals. He tells us that his archives contain more than a million and a half pages of manuscript. If Mr. O'Sullivan translates them, I'll read them."—Seamus Heaney, New Statesman "The stories have an authentic folktale flavor and will satisfy both the student of folklore and the general reader."—Booklist