Douglas Hyde, Jacob Young
Beside The Fire: A Collection of Irish Gaelic Folk Stories
eBook
( Feb. 11, 2013)
Beside The Fire: A Collection of Irish Gaelic Folk Stories
by Douglas Hyde
IRISH and Scotch Gaelic folk-stories are, as a living form of literature, by this time pretty nearly a thing of the past. They have been trampled in the common ruin under the feet of the Zeitgeist, happily not before a large harvest has been reaped in Scotland, but, unfortunately, before anything worth mentioning has been done in Ireland to gather in the crop which grew luxuriantly a few years ago. Until quite recently there existed in our midst millions of men and women who, when their day's work was over, sought and found mental recreation in a domain to which few indeed of us who read books are permitted to enter. Man, all the world over, when he is tired of the actualities of life, seeks to unbend his mind with the creations of fancy. We who can read betake ourselves to our favourite novelist, and as we peruse his fictions, we can almost see our author erasing this, heightening that, and laying on such-and-such a touch for effect. His book is the product of his individual brain, and some of us or of our contemporaries have been present at its genesis.
Preface
Postscript (by Alfred Nutt)
Dedication
The Tailor and the Three Beasts
Bran
The King of Ireland's Son
The Alp-Luachra
Paudyeen O'Kelly and the Weasel
Leeam O'Rooney's Burial
Guleesh na Guss Dhu
The Well of D'Yerree-In-Dowan
The Court of Crinnawn
Neil O'Carree
Trunk-Without-Head
The Hags of the Long Teeth
William of the Tree
The Old Crow & The Young Crow
Riddles
Top Three Famous Irish Legends and Myths
The Leprechaun
The Selkies
The Cry of the Banshee
**This kindle edition is special including Annotated The Top Three Famous Irish Legends and Myths - The Leprechaun, The Selkies and The Cry of the Banshee
**This eBook has all graphics of a high quality and eligible as good format.
**All Texts are completely digitally edited and properly formatted for easy reading.
**Interactive of Table Content linkage for easy navigation.
by Douglas Hyde
IRISH and Scotch Gaelic folk-stories are, as a living form of literature, by this time pretty nearly a thing of the past. They have been trampled in the common ruin under the feet of the Zeitgeist, happily not before a large harvest has been reaped in Scotland, but, unfortunately, before anything worth mentioning has been done in Ireland to gather in the crop which grew luxuriantly a few years ago. Until quite recently there existed in our midst millions of men and women who, when their day's work was over, sought and found mental recreation in a domain to which few indeed of us who read books are permitted to enter. Man, all the world over, when he is tired of the actualities of life, seeks to unbend his mind with the creations of fancy. We who can read betake ourselves to our favourite novelist, and as we peruse his fictions, we can almost see our author erasing this, heightening that, and laying on such-and-such a touch for effect. His book is the product of his individual brain, and some of us or of our contemporaries have been present at its genesis.
Preface
Postscript (by Alfred Nutt)
Dedication
The Tailor and the Three Beasts
Bran
The King of Ireland's Son
The Alp-Luachra
Paudyeen O'Kelly and the Weasel
Leeam O'Rooney's Burial
Guleesh na Guss Dhu
The Well of D'Yerree-In-Dowan
The Court of Crinnawn
Neil O'Carree
Trunk-Without-Head
The Hags of the Long Teeth
William of the Tree
The Old Crow & The Young Crow
Riddles
Top Three Famous Irish Legends and Myths
The Leprechaun
The Selkies
The Cry of the Banshee
**This kindle edition is special including Annotated The Top Three Famous Irish Legends and Myths - The Leprechaun, The Selkies and The Cry of the Banshee
**This eBook has all graphics of a high quality and eligible as good format.
**All Texts are completely digitally edited and properly formatted for easy reading.
**Interactive of Table Content linkage for easy navigation.
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