The Irish fairy book

A collection of Irish folklore encompassing both the familiar and the fantastic, with contributions by such authors as Patrick Kennedy, W.B. Yeats, and Alfred Tennyson

The Irish Fairy Book

Politics & Social Sciences

O'Farrell, Padraic

Social Sciences

Crescent

Green and chaste and foolish: Irish literary and theatrical anecdotes

Literature & Fiction

GILL MACMILLAN

Ancient Irish Legends' is a re-telling of some of the best-loved and most famous tales of ancient Ireland. From the 'Children of Lir' to 'Diarmuid and Grainne' to 'The Salmon of Knowledge' and 'Oisin in Tir na nOg', Padraic O'Farrell re-introduces us to these classic stories of the Celtic past. Other books by Padraic O'Farrell Irish Fairy Tales Irish Saints Irish Surnames

Ancient Irish legends

For generations, stories of 'the fairies' have been filling the pages of Irish literature, as well as enriching a wealth of oral tradition. They could do no evil or good, depending on how mortals treated them, thus ensuring their place in Irish lore down through the ages. Now Padraic O'Farrell re-tells some of the finest Irish fairy tales, with themes as enduring and fascinating as time itself. Many were first told to the author at country firesides over half a century ago and, like a true storyteller, he has spiced his tales with humor and nostalgia, in this re-evocation of a special part of the Irish tradition. Other books by Padraic O'Farrell Ancient Irish Legends Irish Saints Irish Surnames

Irish Fairy Tales

Genre Fiction

Gill Books

A comprehensive look at the history of County Kildare, Ireland, from the early Christian settlements right up to the present day. This series features experienced and authoritative authors local to the counties providing accessible histories from antiauity to the present, with bibliographies, notes and indices for each

A History of County Kildare

History

Europe

Gill Macmillan Ltd

This collection of Irish customs deals with such subjects as love and marriage; farming and fair days; food and drink; prayers and superstitions: the whole gamut of life as lived in traditional Ireland. The author notes that many customs are disappearing in a fast-changing Ireland, but that many others survive. As he notes in his Introduction to this little book: "Before one Christmas past, I participated in a television discussion and felt obliged to take issue with a lady who claimed that the Christmas candle burning in a window was a thing of the past. At least three houses in the small avenue in which I live, my own included, still observe the custom. Just a few months ago, I purchased a car in a midland garage. When the deal was made and I paid over the agreed sum, the vendor handed me back a Euro20 'luck penny'. As the custom required, I 'dry spat' on it (hygiene disallowed the full treatment!). Passing near the delightful town of Inistioge in County Kilkenny a few days later, I noticed a gaily decorated May Bush on the roadside." The survival and continuation of such folk customs is a cause for celebration. This book recalls them in the popular style that Padraic O'Farrell has made all his own.

Irish Customs

Unexplained psychic phenomena fascinate people from all walks of life. However, many are afraid, ashamed and embarrassed to come forward for fear of not being taken seriously. Of course, we can't prove that ghosts exist or don't exist. We are in a different realm of consciousness when we talk about ghosts. But however strange or unusual the feelings that people experience, the experiences themselves are none the less real. Celebrated people have had strange experiences. This book includes those of the actor Micheal MacLiammoir and of playwright and author Hugh Leonard (Jack Keyes Byrne). The Lord of the Dance, Michael Flatley, has acknowledged the presence of a ghost named Isabella in his Castlehyde home near Fermoy, County Cork. Oliver St John Gogarty also believed in ghosts. There are many well-known Irish ghost stories and Padraic O'Farrell tells some of them in this book. He has, however, leaned heavily on the side of lesser-known tales; most of them previously unpublished.

Irish Ghost Stories

A collection of classic Irish sayings, curses, blessings and toasts for any occasion, such as, "When the road rises to meet you may it slap you in the face".

Irish Toasts, Cruses & Blessings

Sterling Pub. Co., Inc.

Do you know why it is considered unlucky to: meet a barefooted man? start a journey on the tenth of November? get married on a Saturday? Irish country people believed that fairies were always present among them and that around the next corner or in the very next clump of thistles there might well be somebody lurking who would lead them to the crock of gold at the end of the rainbow. Fairies were good to mortals who observed the superstitions, e.g. those which called for leaving them food, not throwing out water without first shouting a warning on them, and so on. Living in its fullest sense is still dear to the Irish country folk and is reflected in their customs. Going to work, to sea, to weddings, wakes û at all of these there are fascinating customs to be observed.

Superstitions of the Irish Country People

Irish Book Center

A fascinating collection of Irish proverbs and sayings. Padraic O'Farrell has gathered a rich harvest of wise sayings from the Irish countryside, the lips of great men, and the unspoilt fount of Irish folklore and legend. Whenever Irish people congregate, however long removed from a rural environment, gems of wisdom are to be heard in their conversation.

Irish Proverbs & Sayings: Gems of Irish Wisdom

Mercier Press

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