{"product_id":"irish-folktales-isbn-9780679774129","title":"Irish Folktales","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdited by Henry Glassie\u003cbr\u003eWith black-and-white illustrations throughout\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ePREFACE \/\/ \u003c\/i\u003exiii\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cu\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At the End of a Short Winter’s Day \/\/ 5\u003cbr\u003e Connections \/\/ 10\u003cbr\u003e Tradition \/\/ 11\u003cbr\u003e Communication \/\/ 21\u003cbr\u003e A Last Word \/\/ 26\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTHE TALES \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cu\u003eTHE OLD STORY\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Legend of Knockfierna \/\/ 35\u003cbr\u003e Finn and His Men Bewitched \/\/ 37\u003cbr\u003e The King of Ireland’s Son \/\/ 39\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cu\u003eFAITH\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSAINTS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Baptism of Conor MacNessa \/\/ 51\u003cbr\u003e 2. Saint Patrick \/\/ 52\u003cbr\u003e 3. Saint Patrick on Inishmore \/\/ 52\u003cbr\u003e 4. Saint Patrick and Crom Dubh \/\/ 53\u003cbr\u003e 5. Saint Brigit \/\/ 58\u003cbr\u003e 6. Saint Columcille \/\/ 61\u003cbr\u003e 7. Columcille’s Coffin \/\/ 63\u003cbr\u003e 8. Saint Kevin \/\/ 64\u003cbr\u003e 9. Saint Finbar \/\/ 65\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTHE PRIEST AND HIS PEOPLE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10. James Murray and Saint Martin \/\/ 66\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Best Road to Heaven \/\/ 67\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Man from Kilmacoliver \/\/ 68\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Pious Man \/\/ 69\u003cbr\u003e 14. An Actual Saint \/\/ 70\u003cbr\u003e 15. Old Thorns and Old Priests \/\/ 71\u003cbr\u003e 16. Priests and Farming Men \/\/ 72\u003cbr\u003e 17. Saved by the Priest \/\/ 73\u003cbr\u003e 18. The Doom \/\/ 74\u003cbr\u003e 19. The Right Cure \/\/ 76\u003cbr\u003e 20. The Wolf’s Prophecy \/\/ 78\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cu\u003eWIT \u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTHE WISE AND THE FOOLISH \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 22. The Three Questions \/\/ 83\u003cbr\u003e 23. The Farmer’s Answers \/\/ 84\u003cbr\u003e 24. Half a Blanket \/\/ 85\u003cbr\u003e 25. The Shadow of the Glen \/\/ 86\u003cbr\u003e 26. A Hungry Hired Boy \/\/ 87\u003cbr\u003e 27. The First Mirror \/\/ 89\u003cbr\u003e 28. Robin’s Escape \/\/ 90\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWITS AND POETS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 29. Jonathan Swift, Dean of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral \/\/ 92\u003cbr\u003e 30. Daniel O’Connell \/\/ 93\u003cbr\u003e 31. Owen Roe O’Sullivan \/\/ 97\u003cbr\u003e 32. Robert Burns \/\/ 100\u003cbr\u003e 33. Terry the Grunter \/\/ 102\u003cbr\u003e 34. Thomas Moore and the Tramp \/\/ 102\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTALL TALES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 35. John Brodison and the Policeman \/\/ 103\u003cbr\u003e 36. A Big Potato \/\/ 104\u003cbr\u003e 37. The Fox and the Ranger \/\/ 106\u003cbr\u003e 38. The Horse’s Last Drunk \/\/ 109\u003cbr\u003e 39. Hare and Hound \/\/ 110\u003cbr\u003e 40. Sleepy Pendoodle \/\/ 110\u003cbr\u003e 41. A Medical Expert from Lisnaskea \/\/ 113\u003cbr\u003e 42. George Armstrong’s Return \/\/ 114\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOUTWITTING THE DEVIL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 43. The Lawyer and the Devil \/\/ 116\u003cbr\u003e 44. Coals on the Devil’s Hearth \/\/ 117\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cu\u003eMYSTERY\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDEATH AND TOKENS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 45. No Man Goes Beyond His Day \/\/ 121\u003cbr\u003e 46. A Light Tokens the Death of Mr. Corrigan \/\/ 122\u003cbr\u003e 47. A Clock Token \/\/ 123\u003cbr\u003e 48. The Banshee Cries for the O’Briens \/\/ 123\u003cbr\u003e 49. The Banshee Cried for the Boyles \/\/ 124\u003cbr\u003e 50. Experience of the Banshee \/\/ 124\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGHOSTS \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 51. Grandfather’s Ghost \/\/ 127\u003cbr\u003e 52. Terrible Ghosts \/\/ 127\u003cbr\u003e 53. The Soldier in the Haunted House \/\/ 131\u003cbr\u003e 54. Daniel Crowley and the Ghosts \/\/ 133\u003cbr\u003e 55. Ghosts Along the Arney \/\/ 137\u003cbr\u003e 56. The Grave of His Fathers \/\/ 141\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAWAY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 57. The Coffin \/\/ 142\u003cbr\u003e 58. The Capture of Bridget Purcell \/\/ 143\u003cbr\u003e 59. Taken \/\/ 145\u003cbr\u003e 60. How the Shoemaker Saved His Wife \/\/ 147\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eENCOUNTERS WITH FAIRIES \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 61. The Mountain Elf \/\/ 148\u003cbr\u003e 62. Inishkeen’s on Fire \/\/ 149\u003cbr\u003e 63. The Blood of Adam \/\/ 150\u003cbr\u003e 64. We Had One of Them in the House for a While \/\/ 151\u003cbr\u003e 65. Fairy Property \/\/ 153\u003cbr\u003e 66. The Blacksmith of Bedlam and the Fairy Host \/\/ 155\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFAIRY TRAITS AND TREASURE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 67. Fairy Forths \/\/ 157\u003cbr\u003e 68. Gortdonaghy Forth \/\/ 158\u003cbr\u003e 69. The Fairies Ride from Gortdonaghy to Drumane \/\/ 160\u003cbr\u003e 70. Lanty’s New House \/\/ 161\u003cbr\u003e 71. Jack and the Cluricaune \/\/ 162\u003cbr\u003e 72. Bridget and the Lurikeen \/\/ 164\u003cbr\u003e 73. Fairy Tales \/\/ 166\u003cbr\u003e 74. The Fairy Shilling \/\/ 169\u003cbr\u003e 75. The Breaking of the Forth \/\/ 170\u003cbr\u003e 76. Dreams of Gold \/\/ 171\u003cbr\u003e 77. The Castle’s Treasure \/\/ 172\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eENCHANTED IN NATURE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 78. The Air Is Full of Them \/\/ 173\u003cbr\u003e 79. The Feet Water \/\/ 174\u003cbr\u003e 80. The Fairy Rabbit and the Blessed Earth of Tory \/\/ 176\u003cbr\u003e 81. The Cats’ Judgment \/\/ 177\u003cbr\u003e 82. Never Ask a Cat a Question \/\/ 178\u003cbr\u003e 83. Cats Are Queer Articles \/\/ 180\u003cbr\u003e 84. Tom Moore and the Seal Woman \/\/ 182\u003cbr\u003e 85. The Swine of the Gods \/\/ 184\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eILLNESS AND WITCHCRAFT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 86. A Pig on the Road from Gort \/\/ 185\u003cbr\u003e 87. The Crookened Back \/\/ 185\u003cbr\u003e 88. Maurice Griffin the Fairy Doctore \/\/ 188\u003cbr\u003e 89. Biddy Early \/\/ 191\u003cbr\u003e 90. The Black Art \/\/ 193\u003cbr\u003e 91. Magical Theft \/\/ 194\u003cbr\u003e 92. Paudyeen O’Kelly and the Weasel \/\/ 195\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSTRANGE SOUNDS AND VISIONS OF WAR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 93. One Queer Experience \/\/ 201\u003cbr\u003e 94. Many a One Saw What We Saw \/\/ 202\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cu\u003eHISTORY\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eANCIENT DAYS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 95. The Old Times in Ireland \/\/ 207\u003cbr\u003e 96. The Bath of the White Cows \/\/ 208\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWAR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 97. The Battle of the Ford of Biscuits \/\/ 210\u003cbr\u003e 98. Cromwell \/\/ 213\u003cbr\u003e 99. Cromwell’s Nin \/\/ 214\u003cbr\u003e 100. Patrick Sarsfield \/\/ 215\u003cbr\u003e 101. Sarsfield Surrenders and Rory Takes to the Hills \/\/ 215\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRAPPAREES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 102. Black Francis \/\/ 216\u003cbr\u003e 103. Shan Beragh \/\/ 218\u003cbr\u003e 104. Willie Brennan \/\/ 220\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLATER DAYS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 105. Wicklow in the Rising of 1798 \/\/ 222\u003cbr\u003e 106. The Famine \/\/ 231\u003cbr\u003e 107. Victory in the Time of Famine \/\/ 232\u003cbr\u003e 108. Ruined by Poetry \/\/ 233\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cu\u003eFIRESIDE TALES\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFENIAN TALES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 109. The Birth of Finn MacCumhail \/\/ 237\u003cbr\u003e 110. The High King of Lochlann and the Fenians of Erin \/\/ 245\u003cbr\u003e 111. Usheen’s Return to Ireland \/\/ 256\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMATURITY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 112. Fair Brown, and Trembling \/\/ 257\u003cbr\u003e 113. The Corpse Watchers \/\/ 264\u003cbr\u003e 114. A Widow’s Son \/\/ 267\u003cbr\u003e 115. Jack and Bill \/\/ 270\u003cbr\u003e 116. The Mule \/\/ 277\u003cbr\u003e 117. The King of Ireland’s Son \/\/ 280\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWITH AND FAITH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 118. Huddon and Duddon and Donald O’Leary \/\/ 285\u003cbr\u003e 119. The Three Wishes \/\/ 292\u003cbr\u003e 120. Willy the Wisp \/\/ 311\u003cbr\u003e 121. The Buideach, the Tinker, and the Black Donkey \/\/ 313\u003cbr\u003e 122. The Man Who Had No Story \/\/ 319\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBIBLIOGRAPHY \/\/ \u003c\/i\u003e325\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNOTES \/\/ \u003c\/i\u003e335\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePERMISSIONS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS \/\/ \u003c\/i\u003e352\"Delightful and informative, comfortable and full of wit and fancy. It reminds us why the Irish have been known as great storytellers for a millennium.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Roger D. Abrahams, editor of \u003ci\u003eAfrican Folktales\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"This latest volume of an already distinguished series maintains and even exceeds the high standards of the previous ones. The tales reveal the deep humanity of the Irish people; the commentary and notes reveal the humanity of Glassie. Very highly recommended.\"\u003cbr\u003e— \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A marvelous assortment selected from published (but often out-of-print) collections by the likes of pioneer collectors Lady Wilde, Robin Flower, and Jeremiah Curtin, and from unpublished manuscripts in private and state-owned archives.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Vivid and surprising  . . . The Irish gift for prolixity and verbal magic glistens throughout Glassie's collection.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eChicago Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHENRY GLASSIE \u003c\/b\u003eis a folklorist and emeritus College Professor of Folklore at Indiana University. He has written nearly twenty books on folklore of the areas of Ireland, Turkey, Bangladesh, and the United States, three of which have been named by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e as \"Notable Books of the Year.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGlassie served as the state folklorist for Pennsylvania, received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was a president of the American Folklore Society and the Vernacular Architecture Forum. He was nominated to the National Council on the Humanities by President Bill Clinton on which he served in 2001.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE LEGEND OF KNOCKFIERNA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCork\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eT. Crofton Croker (1825)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIt is a very good thing not to be in any way in dread of the fairies, for without doubt they have then less power over a person. But to make too free with them, or to disbelieve in them altogether, is as foolish a thing as man, woman, or child can do.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIt has been truly said that “good manners are no burthen,” and that “civility costs nothing.” But there are some people foolhardy enough to disregard doing a civil thing, which, whatever they may think, can never harm themselves or anyone else, and who at the same time will go out of their way for a bit of mischief, which never can serve them. But sooner or later they will come to know better, as you shall hear of Carroll O’Daly, a strapping young fellow up out of Connacht, whom they used to call, in his own country, “Devil Daly.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCarroll O’Daly used to go roving about from one place to another, and the fear of nothing stopped him. He would soon pass an old churchyard, or a regular fairy ground, at any hour of the night, as go from one room into another, without ever making the sign of the cross, or saying, “Good luck attend you, gentleman.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIt so happened that he was once journeying in the County of Limerick, towards “the Baalbek or Ireland,” the venerable town of Kilmallock, and just at the foot of Knockfierna he overtook a respectable-looking man jogging along upon a white pony. The night was coming on, and they rode side by side for some time, without much conversation passing between them, further than saluting each other very kindly. At last, Carroll O’Daly asked his companion how far he was going.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Not far your way,” said the farmer, for such his appearance bespoke him. “I’m only going to the top of this hill here.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“And what might take you there,” said O’Daly, “at this time of the night?”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Why then,” replied the farmer, “if you want to know, ‘tis the Good People.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“The fairies, you mean,” said O’Daly.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Whist! whist!,” said his fellow-traveler, “or you may be sorry for it.” And he turned his pony off the road they were going towards a little path which led up the side of the mountain, wishing Carroll O’Day good night and a safe journey.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“That fellow,” thought Carroll,” is about no good this blessed night, and I would have no fear of swearing wrong if I took my Bible oath, that it is something else beside the fairies, of the Good People, as he calls them, that is taking him up the mountain at this hour. The fairies!” he repeated. “Is it for a well-shaped man like him to be going after little chaps like the fairies? To be sure some say there are such things, and more say not. But I know this, that never afraid would I be of a dozen of them, aye, of two dozen, for that matter, if they are no bigger than what I hear tell of.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCarroll O’Daly, whilst these thoughts were passing in his mind, had fixed his eyes steadfastly on the mountain, behind which the full moon was rising majestically. Upon an elevated point that appeared darkly against the moon’s disk, he beheld the figure of a man leading a pony, and he had no doubt it was that of the farmer with whom he had just parted company.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA sudden resolved to follow flashed across the mind of O’Daly with the speed of lightning. Both his courage and curiosity had been worked up by his cogitations to a pitch of chivalry, and muttering, “Here’s after you, old boy,” he dismounted from his horse, bound him to an old thorn tree, and then commenced vigorously ascending the mountain.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFollowing as well as he could the direction taken by the figures of the man and pony, he pursued his way, occasionally guided by their partial appearance, and after toiling nearly three hours over a rugged and sometimes swampy path, came to a green spot on the top of the mountain, where he saw the while pony at full liberty, grazing as quietly as may be. O’Daly looked around for the rider, but he was nowhere to be seen; he however soon discovered close to where the pony stood an opening in the mountain like the mouth of a pit, and he remembered having once heard, when a child, man a take about the “Poul-duve,” or Black Hole, of Knockfierna; how it was the entrance to the fairy castle which was within the mountain; and how a man whose name was Ahern, a land surveyor in that part of the country, had once attempted to fathom it with a line, and had been drawn down into it and was never again heard of; with many other tales of the like nature.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“But,” thought O’Daly, “these are old women’s stories. And since I’ve come up so far I’ll just knock at the castle door, and see if the fairies are at home.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNo sooner said than done; for seizing a large stone as big, aye, bigger than his two hands, he flung it with all his strength down into the Poul-Duve of Knockfierna. He heard it bounding and tumbling about from one rock to another with a terrible noise, and he leant his head over to try and hear if it would reach the bottom—when what should the very stone he had thrown in do but come up again with as much force as it had gone down, and gave him such a blow full in the face, that it sent him rolling down the side of Knockfierna, head over heels, tumbling from one crag to another, much faster than he came up. And in the morning Carroll O’Daly was found lying beside his horse; the bridge of his nose broken, which disfigured him for life; his head all cut and bruised, and both his eyes closed up, and as black as if Sir Daniel Donnelly had painted them for him.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCarroll O’Daly was never bold again in riding along near the haunts of the fairies after dusk, But small blame to him for that. And if ever he happened to be benighted in a lonesome place he would make the best of his way to his journey’s end, without asking questions, or turning to the right or to the left, to seek after the Good People, or any who kept company with them.The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library","brand":"Pantheon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304268484837,"sku":"NP9780679774129","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679774129.jpg?v=1767730183","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/irish-folktales-isbn-9780679774129","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}