Fairy & Folk Tales of Ireland

by William Butler Yeats

Overview

One of Ireland's greatest writers, the Nobel-prize winner W. B. Yeats was fascinated by the myths and folklore of his native country. Compiled by Yeats in 1892, these stories were collected around the country by a variety of historians, including Lady Wilde, the mother of Oscar Wilde.

Inside, you'll discover over 25 tales of such tales, featuring of greedy sons who get their comeuppance, canny priests, evil witches and demons alongside legends of heroic kings, giants and, of course, the good folk themselves - the fairies, the leprechauns, and the cluricauns.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781398843691
Publisher:	Arcturus Publishing Limited
Publication date:	10/01/2024
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	344,385
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was a poet, writer, and one of the mainstays of the British and Irish literary scenes. In 1923 he became the first Irishman awarded the Nobel Prize. He spent two terms serving as a senator in Ireland and, as an Irish nationalist, he spent a brief time in the Irish Republican Brotherhood. He distanced himself from the movement before the Easter Rising of 1916, choosing instead to focus on his literary pursuits.

Table of Contents

Preface
I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden
II. Guleesh
III. The Field of Boliauns
IV. The Horned Women
V. Conall Yellowclaw
VI. Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary
VII. The Shepherd of Myddvai
VIII. The Sprightly Tailor
IX. The Story of Deirdre
X. Munachar and Manachar
XI. Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree
XII. King O'Toole and His Goose
XIII. The Wooing of Olwen
XIV. Jack and His Comrades
XV. The Shee An Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire
XVI. The Story-Teller at Fault
XVII. The Sea-Maiden
XVIII. A Legend of Knockmany
XIX. Fair, Brown, and Trembling
XX. Jack and His Master
XXI. Beth Gellert
XXII. The Tale of Ivan