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Author: William Larminie
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2021-04-11
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA captivating collection of Irish folktales that had been passed on orally over centuries. Filled with fascinating stories, amusing characters, and picturesque descriptions, this book will entertain the readers till the end.
Author: William Larminie
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: 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: Sean O'Sullivan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2018-12-14
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 022637517X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew countries can boast such a plentitude of traditional folktales as Ireland. In 1935, the creation of The Irish Folklore Commission set in motion the first organized efforts of collecting and studying a multitude of folktales, both written as well as those of the Irish oral tradition. The Commission has collected well over a million pages of manuscripts. Folktales of Ireland offers chief archivist Sean O'Sullivan's representation of this awe-inspiring collection. These tales represent the first English language collection of Gaelic folktales. "Without doubt the finest group of Irish tales that has yet been published in English."—The Guardian "O'Sullivan writes out of an intimacy with his subject and an instinctive grasp of the language of the originals. He tells us that his archives contain more than a million and a half pages of manuscript. If Mr. O'Sullivan translates them, I'll read them."—Seamus Heaney, New Statesman "The stories have an authentic folktale flavor and will satisfy both the student of folklore and the general reader."—Booklist
Author: Seán Ó Súilleabháin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1999-03-15
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 0226639983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains a collection of over fifty Gaelic folktales from the archives of the Irish Folklore Commission including tales of kings and warriors, pagans and Christians, and stories about historical Irish characters.
Author: John Wilson Foster
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 1993-04-01
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780815623748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a critical survey of the fiction and non-fiction written in Ireland during the key years between 1880 and 1920, or what has become known as the Irish Literary Renaissance. The book considers both the prose and the social and cultural forces working through it.
Author: Jeremiah Curtin
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-09-06
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0486120376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwenty 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.
Author: William Yeats
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 1993-07-29
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 014196099X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection brings together all of W. B. Yeats’s published prose writings on Irish folklore, legend and myth, with pieces on subjects including ghosts, kidnappers, fairies, ancient tribes, precious stones and Gaelic love songs. Through his researches on Irish folklore, Yeats attempted to create a movement in literature that was enriched by and rooted in a vital native tradition. In this volume Yeats’s essays, introductions and sketches are presented chronologically, giving a clear picture of how his analysis developed, increasing in its depth and complexity in his quest to create an Ireland of the imagination.
Author: Salem Public Library
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 186
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter Lamborn Wilson
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 2021-10-20
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 0872868915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Rig Veda, written in India about 1500BC, praises a holy plant called Soma, which is sacrificed and consumed, granting the drinker an experience of enlightenment and ecstasy. The late Gordon Wasson identified Soma as a "magic mushroom," Amanita muscaria, and he and his followers discovered that such Indo-Europeans as the ancient Greeks, Iranians and Norse had also used a Soma-type plant. In Ploughing the Clouds Peter Lamborn Wilson investigates the probability of a Soma cult in ancient Ireland, tracing clues in Irish (and other Celtic) lore. By comparing Celtic folktales, romances, epics and topographic lore with the Rig Veda, he uncovers the Irish branch of the great Indo-European tradition of psychedelic (or "entheogenic") shamanism, and even reconstructs some of its secret rituals. He uses this comparative material to illuminate the deep meaning of the Soma-function in all cultures: the entheogenic origin of "poetic frenzy," the link between intoxication and inspiration.
