Irish Folk Tales
Irish Folk Tales

Author: Henry Glassie

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 2012-09-19

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0307828247

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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 Glassie With black-and-white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

How the Irish Won the West
How the Irish Won the West

Author: Myles Dungan

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

Published: 2011-03

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1616081007

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Here is the full story of the Irish immigrants and their decedents whose hard work helped make the West what it is today. Learn about the Irish members of the Donner party, forced to consume human flesh to survive the winter; mountain men like Thomas Fitzpatrick, who discovered the South Pass through the Rockies; Ellen “Nellie” Cashman, who ran boarding houses and bought and sold claims in Alaska, Arizona, and Nevada; and Maggie Hall, who became known as the “whore with a heart of gold.” A fascinating and entertaining look at the history of the American West, this book will surprise many and make every Irish American proud.

Tales of the West of Ireland
Tales of the West of Ireland

Author: James Berry

Publisher: Colin Smythe

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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Berry, who lived his entire life in the West of Ireland, collected these tales from the people of Mayo and Galway. Mainly handed down by word of mouth, they tell of poor communities in a bleak and beautiful countryside where secret societies, man-hun

Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland
Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland

Author: Jeremiah Curtin

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-09-06

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0486120376

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Twenty folk tales represent hundreds of years of the collective Irish imagination. Vivid descriptions of battles with giants, humans imprisoned in animals' bodies, heroes with incredible strength, and more.

Meeting the Other Crowd
Meeting the Other Crowd

Author: Eddie Lenihan

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2004-02-02

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1101167335

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"The Other Crowd," "The Good People," "The Wee Folk," and "Them" are a few of the names given to the fairies by the people of Ireland. Honored for their gifts and feared for their wrath, the fairies remind us to respect the world we live in and the forces we cannot see. In these tales of fairy forts, fairy trees, ancient histories, and modern true-life encounters with The Other Crowd, Eddie Lenihan opens our eyes to this invisible world with the passion and bluntness of a seanchai, a true Irish storyteller.

Footloose in the West of Ireland
Footloose in the West of Ireland

Author: Mike Harding

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 9780718133597

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In his fourth walking book, the author returns to the country of his ancestors to experience the countryside, the music and the legends of the west coast of Ireland.