Ancient Irish Legends: The Best-loved and Most Famous Tales of Ancient Ireland

by Padraic O'Farrell

Overview

From the Children of Lir to Díarmuid and Gráinne to the Salmon of Knowledge and Oisín in Tír na nÓg, Padraic O'Farrell reintroduces the classic stories of the Celtic past.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780717157341
Publisher:	Gill Books
Publication date:	03/08/2001
Series:	Irish Customs and Traditions , #2
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	540 KB

About the Author

The late Padraic O’Farrell was one of Ireland’s most prolific popular authors. Born in County Kildare in 1932, he went on to become a senior army officer based in Mullingar. He was the author of forty books, including a number on Irish proverbs and sayings: Gems of Irish Wisdom, Irish Rogues, Rascals and Scoundrels and How the Irish Speak English. Other books are The Burning of Brinsley MacNamara, The Blacksmith of Ballinalee, Who’s Who in the Irish War of Independence and Civil War 1916–23, and a Michael Collins novel, Rebel Heart. He also scripted two historical plays and a musical based on the Great War and wrote features and theatre reviews for various publications, among them The Irish Times and Theatre Ireland.