Books with title Magical Irish Folk Tales

Here are 125 magnificent folktales collected from anthologies and journals published from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with tales of the ancient times and continuing through the arrival of the saints in Ireland in the fifth century, the periods of war and family, the Literary Revival championed by William Butler Yeats, and the contemporary era, these robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic stories of kings, ghosts, fairies, treasures, enchanted nature, and witchcraft are set in cities, villages, fields, and forests from the wild western coast to the modern streets of Dublin and Belfast.Edited by Henry GlassieWith black-and-white illustrations throughoutPart of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

Glassie, Henry [ed.]. Irish Folk Tales. Second printing. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1988. 15,5 cm x 23 cm. XVII, 356 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss - american - irish poet Chuck Kruger. With his name to half title.Occasional markings and annotations in the text. Contains among others the following chapters: At the End of a Short Winter's Day; Connections; Tradition; Communication; A Last Word; The Legend of Knockfierna; Finn and his Men Bewitched; The King of Ireland's Son; The Baptism of Conor MacNessa; Saint Patrick; Saint Patrick on Inishmore etc.

This collection of 10 Irish Fairy & Folk Tales is set in Medieval Ireland and features an array of characters from hunters and warriors to kings and fairies. First published in 1920 the tales draw from the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology, the third of the four major cycles of Irish mythology which is the most extensive and best-preserved branch of Celtic mythology.