Books with title Tales for the telling: Irish folk

These 12 enchanting stories of ancient magic, daring deeds, dashing heroes, and mythical creatures sparkle with wit, nonsense, and naughtiness. Tales for the Telling features traditional Irish folk and fairy tales. In "Two Giants," Irish giant Finn, no longer in the first flush of youth, is challenged to do battle against Scottish giant McConigle, who aims to take over Finn’s territory. The titanic clash is averted when Finn’s clever wife, Oonagh manages to fool McConigle into thinking that Finn is twice the size he really is, and three times as strong. McConigle then has second thoughts about tackling Finn. This story illustrates the way that O’Brien’s retelling of tales from her native land will delight and enthrall the whole family either as bed-time reading or as a rainy day treat.

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.