Front matter
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The Irish Fairy Book
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Sung by the people of faery over Diarmuid and Grania, who lay in their bridal sleep under a Cromlech.
e who are old, old and gay, O so old! Thousands of years, thousands of years, If all were told: Give to these children, new from the world, Silence and love; And the long dew-dropping hours of the night, And the stars above: Give to these children, new from the world, Rest far from men. Is anything better, anything better? Tell us it then: Us who are old, old and gay, O so old! Thousands of years, thousands of years, If all were told. W. B. Yeats.
THE COMING OF FINNStandish James O’Grady1
THE THREE CROWNSPatrick Kennedy12
THE GRATEFUL BEASTSPatrick Kennedy25
THE LEPRACAUNWilliam Allingham31
DANIEL O’ROURKET. Crofton Croker35
CUCHULAIN OF MUIRTHEMNELady Gregory45
THE BOYHOOD OF CUCHULAINStandish James O’Grady52
THE LEGEND OF KNOCKGRAFTONT. Crofton Croker60
THE STOLEN CHILDW. B. Yeats67
THE LAND OF YOUTHBryan O’Looney71
Edited by John O’Daly
THE ADVENTURES OF GILLA NA CHRECKPatrick Kennedy85
THE HILL-MAN AND THE HOUSE-WIFEMrs. Ewing96
THE GIANT WALKERSir Samuel Ferguson99
THE PURSUIT OF THE GILLA DACKERPatrick W. Joyce102
JAMIE FREEL AND THE YOUNG LADYLetitia McClintock123
A LEGEND OF KNOCKMANYWilliam Carleton133
THE NINEPENNY FIDILJoseph Campbell149
FESTIVITIES AT THE HOUSE OF CONANNicholas O’Kearney151
THE WHITE TROUTSamuel Lover160
THE WONDERFUL CAKEPatrick Kennedy164
THE LEGEND OF THE LITTLE WEAVERSamuel Lover167
MOR OF CLOYNEAlfred Perceval Graves180
LAWN DYARRIGJeremiah Curtin[1]181
THE HORNED WOMENLady Wilde198
THE QUARE GANDERJoseph Sheridan Le Fann202
THE FAIRIES’ PASSAGEJames Clarence Mangan214
THE KING OF THE BLACK DESERTDouglas Hyde218
THE PIPER AND THE PUCADouglas Hyde236
THE FAIRY CHANGELINGDora Sigerson241
THE TALKING HEAD OF DONN-BOEleanor Hull243
THE BRACKET BULLDouglas Hyde246
THE DEMON CATLady Wilde262
THE ABBOT OF INISFALENWilliam Allingham265
MORRAHAW. Larminie269
THE KILDARE POOKAPatrick Kennedy286
THE KING’S SONThomas Boyd290
MURTOUGH AND THE WITCH-WOMANEleanor Hull293
THE RED PONYW. Larminie307
KING O’TOOLE AND ST. KEVINSamuel Lover314
LAMENT OF THE LAST LEPRECHAUNNora Hopper322
THE CORPSE WATCHERSPatrick Kennedy324
THE MAD PUDDINGWilliam Carleton329
THE VOYAGE OF MAELDUNEAlfred Tennyson346