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Irish Folktales

By Henry Glassie

Irish Folktales Books

Irish Folktales

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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
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
368
Release Date:
1997-02-11
Publication Date:
1997-02-11
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679774122
ISBN13:
9780679774129
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
499 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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