Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland
by Yeats, William ButlerFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-03-02
Publisher(s): Scribner
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Summary
THE CLASSIC ONE-VOLUME INTRODUCTION TO IRELAND'S RICH FOLKLORE: WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS'S MAGICAL SELECTION OF TRADITIONAL IRISH FAIRY AND FOLK TALESFairy and Folk Tales of Irelandcombines two books of Irish folklore collected and edited by William Butler Yeats --Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry,first published in 1888, andIrish Fairy Tales,published in 1892. In this delightful gathering of legend and song, the familiar characters of Irish myth come to life: the mercurial trooping fairies, as ready to make mischief as to do good; the solitary and industrious Lepracaun and his dissipated cousin, the Cluricaun; the fearsome Pooka, who lives among ruins and has "grown monstrous with much solitude"; and the Banshee, whose eerie wailing warns of death. More than an ambitious and successful effort to preserve the rich heritage of his native land, this volume confirms Yeats's conviction that imagination is the source of both life and art. As Benedict Kiely observes in his foreword, Yeats was seeking "not for the meaning of any mystery but for what he had already determined to find...a world of the imagination...a world that fed on dreaming and not on the painted toy of grey truth."
Author Biography
William Butler Yeats is generally considered to be Ireland's greatest poet, living or dead, and one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Foreword by Benedict Kiely FAIRY AND FOLK TALES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY
Introduction
THE TROOPING FAIRIES
- The FairiesFrank 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 Priest's Supper
- The Brewery of Egg-shells
- The Fairy Nurse
- Jamie Freel and the Young Lady
- The Stolen Child
- The Fairy Nurse
- The Soul Cages
- Flory Cantillon's Funeral
- Flory Cantillon's Funeral
THE SOLITARY FAIRIES
- Lepracaun, Cluricaun, Far Darrig
- The Lepracaun; or, Fairy Shoemaker
- Master and Man
- Far Darrig in Donegal
- The Pooka
- The Piper and the Púca
- 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
- The Lepracaun; or, Fairy Shoemaker
GHOSTS
- A Dream
- Grace Connor
- A Legend of Tyrone
- The Black Lamb
- Song of the Ghost
- The Radiant Boy
- The Fate of Frank M'Kenna
- Grace Connor
WITCHES, FAIRY DOCTORS
- 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
- A Queen's County Witch
TÍR-NA-N-OG
- The Legend of O'Donoghue
- Rent-Day
- Loughleagh (Lake of Healing)
- Hy-Brasail -- The Isle of the Blest
- The Phantom Isle
- Rent-Day
SAINTS, PRIESTS
- 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 Priest of Coloony
THE DEVIL
- The Demon Cat
- The Long Spoon
- The Countess Kathleen O'Shea
- The Three Wishes
- The Long Spoon
GIANTS
- The Giant's Stairs
- A Legend of Knockmany
- A Legend of Knockmany
KINGS, QUEENS, PRINCESSES, EARLS, ROBBERS
- The Twelve Wild Geese
- The Lazy Beauty and her Aunts
- The Haughty Princess
- The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla
- Munachar and Manachar
- Donald and his Neighbours
- The Jackdaw
- The Story of Conn-eda
- The Lazy Beauty and her Aunts
Some Authorities on Irish Folk-lore
IRISH FAIRY TALES
Note
Introduction
LAND AND WATER FAIRIES
- The Fairies' Dancing-place
- The Rival Kempers
- The Young Piper
- A Fairy Enchantment
- Teigue of the Lee
- The Fairy Greyhound
- The Lady of Gollerus
- The Rival Kempers
EVIL SPIRITS
- The Devil's Mill
- Fergus O'Mara and the Air-demons
- The Man Who Never Knew Fear
- Fergus O'Mara and the Air-demons
CATS
- Seanchan the Bard and the King of the Cats
- Owney and Owney-na-Peak
- Owney and Owney-na-Peak
KINGS AND WARRIORS
- The Knighting of Cuculain
- The Little Weaver of Duleek Gate
- The Little Weaver of Duleek Gate
APPENDIX
- Classification of Irish Fairies
- Authorities on Irish Folk-lore
- Authorities on Irish Folk-lore
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