| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xvii, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 327-353. |
| Contents |
The old story. The legend of Knockfierna -- Finn and his men bewitched -- The king of Ireland's son. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Fireside tales. The birth of Finn MacCumhail -- The high king of Lochlann and the Fenians of Erin -- Usheen's return to Ireland -- Fair, brown, and trembling -- The corpse watchers -- A widow's son -- Jack and Bill -- The mule -- The king of Ireland's son -- Huddon and Duddon and Donald O'Leary -- The three wishes -- Willy the Wisp -- The buideach, the tinker, and the black donkey -- The man who had no story. |
| Subject |
Tales -- Ireland.
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Legends -- Ireland.
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| Added Author |
Glassie, Henry, 1941-
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| ISBN |
0394532244: $19.95 |
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9780394532240 |
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