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Author: Diarmuid Ó Giolláin
Publisher: Cork University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781859181690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first of its kind, Irish Folklore is a key text that uses Nordic ethnography methods and Latin American culture theory to explain how differing groups legitimise their own identities by identifying with notions drawn from folklore.
Author: Henry Glassie
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2012-09-19
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0307828247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere 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 Glassie With black-and-white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Author: Marie Heaney
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1995-07-13
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 057117518X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Journalist Marie Heaney skillfully revives the glory of ancient Irish storytelling in this comprehensive volume from the great pre-Christian sequences to the more recent tales of the three patron saints Patrick, Brigid, and Colmcille."--Publisher's description.
Author: W. B. Yeats
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2022-03-15
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 1949846520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA classic collection of Irish fairy tales and lore by Nobel Peace Prize-winning author and poet W. B. Yeats Originally published as two separate volumes in 1800s, this premier collection of Irish stories edited and compiled W. B. Yeats is the perfect gift for any lover of Irish literature and folklore. The lyrical prose and rich cultural heritage of each tale will captivate and enchant readers of all ages and keep them entertained for hours on end. This volume contains more than seventy classic Irish stories, including timeless characters and mythology passed down for generations such as: The Trooping Fairies Changelings Tir-na-n-óg The Lepracaun The Kildare Pooka How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee And many more!
Author: Bairbre McCarthy
Publisher: Mercier Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781856351867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBilingual Irish/English. A collection of much-loved legends, simply retold in Irish and English.
Author: Dáithí Ó hÓgáin
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe works of Joseph Campbell, his highly acclaimed PBS interview with Bill Moyers, and the steadily expanding awareness of and interest in Jungian psychology have all contributed to an explosion in demand for scholarly yet accessible works on mythology and folklore. This first volume in a series on world mythologies will claim a place in the first ranks of the literature of lore. 100 illustrations.
Author: BOUNTY BOOKS
Publisher: Bounty Books
Published: 2004-03
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9780753709450
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Claire Booss
Publisher: Gramercy
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 776
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduce yourself to the noble heroes and magical creatures of Irish mythology. Includes the two definitive works on the subject by the giants of the Irish Renaissance. W.B. Yeates' Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry and Lady Gregory's Cuchulain of Muirthemne.
Author: John Grenham
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780806317687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Deirdre Ní Chonghaile
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Published: 2021-07-27
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 0299332403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollecting Music in the Aran Islands, a critical historiographical study of the practice of documenting traditional music, is the first to focus on the archipelago off the west coast of Ireland. Deirdre Ní Chonghaile argues for a framework to fully contextualize and understand this process of music curation.
