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Irish Fairy Tales is a retelling of ten Irish folktales by the Irish author James Stephens. The English illustrator Arthur Rackham provided interior artwork, including numerous black and white illustrations and sixteen color plates. The stories are set in a wooded, Medieval Ireland filled with larger-than-life hunters, warriors, kings, and fairies.
Irish folklore (Irish: béaloideas) refers to the folktales, balladry, music, dance and mythology of Ireland.It is the study and appreciation of how people lived. The folklore of Ireland includes banshees, fairies, leprechauns and other mythological creatures, and was typically shared orally by people gathering around, sharing stories.
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry London: Walter Scott, Retrieved from University of Toronto Library via Archive.org 20 November 2017; Yeats, William Butler. (1888).Irish Fairy Tales London: T. Fisher Unwin, Retrieved from University of California Library via Archive.org 20 November 2017; Young, Ella. (1910).
Fairy tales from Ireland, short stories that belong to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic , enchantments , and mythical or fanciful beings. Ireland portal
Feather O' My Wing is an Irish fairy tale collected and published by Irish author Seumas MacManus. The tale belongs to the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom as a subtype, with few variants reported across Europe and in Ireland. In it, the heroine is delivered to a cursed or enchanted prince, but breaks a taboo and loses him; later ...
The tale was first published in Thomas Crofton Croker's Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825). [2] [4] The plot outline is as follows: There was a hunchbacked man who made his living selling his plaited goods woven from straw or rush, nicknamed Lusmore (Irish: lus mór literally "great herb", referring to the 'foxglove' [5] [6]) because he habitually wore a sprig of this ...