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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.
Irish sagas and Folk Tales London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192741047; ISBN 978-0192741042. O'Flaherty, Liam (1927). The Fairy Goose and Two Other Stories, London: Crosby Gaige. Retrieved 27 November 2017. Scott, Michael (1988) Green and Golden Tales: Irish Hero Tales Dublin: Sphere Books Limited ISBN 0-85342-868-9; ISBN 978-0-85342-868-8
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 ...
Fair, Brown and Trembling is an Irish fairy tale collected by Jeremiah Curtin in Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland [1] and Joseph Jacobs in his Celtic Fairy Tales. [2]It is Aarne-Thompson type 510A.
Patrick Kennedy (early 1801 – 29 March 1873) [8] was a folklorist from County Wexford, Ireland.An educator turned bookseller, who also contributed various articles and reviews as a writer, he eventually became best known as a collector and publisher of Irish folktales and folklore, particularly from his native County Wexford.
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]