Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

by William Butler Yeats

Culture & Heritage Fiction Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

44 chapters11h 20mEnglish1890

About this book

This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and translated them near the end of the 1800s. - Summary by Michele Eaton

Chapters (43)

1The Trooping Fairies - The Fairies

380

2Frank Martin and The Fairies

516

3The Priest's Supper - The Fairy Well of Lagnanay

675

4Teig O'Kane and the Corpse

1766

5Paddy Corcoran's Wife - Cusheen Loo the White Trout: A Legend of Cong

721

6The Fairy Thorn - The Legend of Knockgrafton - A Donegal Fairy

888

7Changelings The Brewery of Egg-shells - The Fairy Nurse

500

8Jamie Freel and the Young Lady - The Stolen Child

923

9The Merrow The Soul Cages

1624

10Flory Cantillon's Funeral

476

11The Solitary Fairies -The Lepracaun, or, Fairy Shoemaker

218

12Master and Man - Far Darrig in Donegal

1667

13The Piper and the Puca - Daniel O'Rourke

1267

14The Kildare Pooka - How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee

1071

15A Lamantation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald - The Banshee of the MacCarthys

2156

16Ghosts - A Dream

298

17Grace Conner

248

18A Legend of Tyrone

169

19The Black Lamb - Song of the Ghost

206

20The Radiant Boy - The Fate of Frank M'Kenna

1255

21Witches, Fairy Doctors Bewitched

506

22Bewitched Butter (Donegal) - A Queen's County Witch

661

23The Witch Hare - Bewitched Butter (Queen's County)

1481

24The Horned Women - The Witches Excursion

620

25The Confessions of Tom Bourke

1904

26The Pudding Bewitched

1784

27Tyeer-Na-N-Oge The Legend of O'Donoghue

464

28Rent-Day - Loughleagh (Lake of Healing)

1215

29Hy-Brasail - The Isle of the Blest - The Phantom Isle

256

30Saints, Priests The Priest's Soul - The Priest of Coloony

910

31The Story of the Little Bird - Conversion King Laoghaire's Daughters

327

32King O'Toole and His Goose

598

33The Devil The Demon Cat - The Long Spoon - The Countess Kathleen

815

34The Three Wishes Part 1

1513

35The Three Wishes Part 2

1775

36Giants - The Giant's Stairs

898

37A Legend of Knockmany

1547

38Kings, Queens, Princesses, Earls, Robbers - The Twelve Wild Geese

638

39The Lazy Beauty and Her Aunts

750

40The Haughty Princess - The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla

817

41Munachar and Manachar - Donald and his Neighbours

1092

42The Jackdaw

368

43The Story of Conn-eda

1781

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

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Chapters (43)

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