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Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

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ISBN-10: 0812968557

ISBN-13: 9780812968552

Edition: 2003

Authors: William Butler Yeats, Paul Muldoon, William Butler Yeats

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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.” From…    
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Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/11/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.28" wide x 7.95" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Paul Muldoon was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. He lives with his wife, the novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz, & his two children in New Jersey, & teaches at Princeton University. In 1999 he was elected Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford.

Foreword
Introduction
The Fairies
Frank Martin and the Fairies
The Priest's Supper
The Fairy Well of Lagnanay
Teig O'Kane and the Corpse
Paddy Corcoran's Wife
Cusheen Loo
The White Trout; A Legend of Cong
The Fairy Thorn
The Legend of Knockgrafton
A Donegal Fairy
The Brewery of Egg-shells
The Fairy Nurse
Jamie Freel and the Young Lady
The Stolen Child
The Soul Cages
Flory Cantillon's Funeral
The Lepracaun; or, Fairy Shoemaker
Master and Man
Far Darrig in Donegal
The Pooka
The Piper and the Puca
Daniel O'Rourke
The Kildare Pooka
The Banshee
How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee
A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald
The Banshee of the Mac Carthys
A Dream
Grace Connor
A Legend of Tyrone
The Black Lamb
Song of the Ghost
The Radiant Boy
The Fate of Frank M'Kenna
Bewitched Butter (Donegal)
A Queen's County Witch
The Witch Hare
Bewitched Butter (Queen's County)
The Horned Women
The Witches' Excursion
The Confessions of Tom Bourke
The Pudding Bewitched
The Legend of O'Donoghue
Rent Day
Loughleagh (Lake of Healing)
Hy-Brasail - The Isle of the Blest
The Phantom Isle
The Priest's Soul
The Priest of Coloony
The Story of the Little Bird
Conversion of King Laoghaire's Daughters
King O'Toole and His Goose
The Demon Cat
The Long Spoon
The Countess Kathleen O'Shea
The Three Wishes
The Giant's Stairs
A Legend of Knockmany
The Twelve Wild Geese
The Lazy Beauty and Her Aunts
The Haughty Princess
The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla
Munachar and Manachar
Donald and His Neighbors
The Jackdaw
The Story of Conn-eda; Or the Golden Apples of Lough Erne
Notes