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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.
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
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.
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 Three Daughters of King O'Hara is an Irish fairy tale collected by Jeremiah Curtin in Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland. [1] Reidar Th. Christiansen identified its origin as County Kerry. [2] The tale is related to the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or The Search of the Lost Husband.
The tale was also published by Irish poet Alfred Perceval Graves in his Irish Fairy Book (1909). [2] Joseph Jacobs published the tale as The Lad with the Goat-Skin in his Celtic Fairy Tales. [3] The tale is classified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as ATU 650A, "Strong John". [4]
The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen is an Irish fairy tale collected in Hibernian Tales. Andrew Lang included it in The Red Fairy Book. [1] It is Aarne-Thompson type 953 ("The Old Robber Relates Three Adventures"). [2]
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