A Treasury of Irish Folklore: The Stories, Traditions, Legends, Humor, Wisdom, Ballads Ands Songs of the Irish People

by Colum, Padraic

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Wings Books, 1992. Hard Cover. Like New/Like New. 1992 HARDCOVER. 620 pages. Dust jacket edge wear, pages faintly toned, minimal shelf wear.. CONTENTS: Introduction; Preface; THE IRISH EDGE: Introduction; A Man's Life; The Nature of Love; Father Prout's Sermon; The Parish Priest Reporves and Encourages His Flock: A Sermon; There's Always a Good Reason; Mr. Dooley on New Year's Resolutions; A Duel with Words; The Difference Between Youth and Age; How O'Connell Won the Championship of Billingsgate; A Story about King Solomon; Mr. Dooley on Criminals; How Two Irish Emissaries Came to a British Prime Minister Who Was Also a Fellow-Celt; Two of a Kind; Irish Justice; How the Farmer Got Free Pasturage from the Astronomer; Queen Victoria's After-Dinner Speech; How Aristotle Outwitted His Wife; Irish Bulls: Definition; Irish Bulls: Example; Cauth Morrisy Looking for Service; The Widow Malone; A Few Jigs and Reels; HEROES OF OLD: Introduction; The Tuatha De Danaan; The Magic Song Amergin Utters Against the Wind Raised by the De Danaan; The Invaders of Ireland; The Duel of Cu Chullain and His Son; Pillow Talk; The Combat at the Ford; Cu Chullain's Lament Over Ferdiad; Deirdre of the Sorrows; The High-Kingship; Cormac; Instructions of a King; Dermott and Grania; The Death of Dermott; The Gruff Gillie; The Return of Oisin and His Meeting with Saint Patrick; Saint Patrick; Saint Colum-cille Foretells What Saint Patrick Will Do for the Men and Women of Ireland on the Day of Judgment; How Colum-cille Saved the Poets' Guild; Brian Boru; The Unbroken Line of O'Briens; GREAT CHIEFS AND UNCROWNED KINGS: Introduction; Garret More Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare; Shane O'Neil; Grace O'Malley, Irish Sea Queen; Brian of the Ramparts O'Rourke; The Nine Years' War: Its Leaders and Battles; The Two Hughs; The Battle of the Yellow Ford; O'Neill and His National Confederacy Against Essex; The Battle of the Curlew Mountains; The Disastrous Battle of Kinsale; Irish War-Cries; IRELAND WITHOUT LEADERS: Introduction; Dedication of The Annals of the Four Masters; Dudley Mac Firbis; Owen Roe O'Neill's Speech at Benburb; An Officer Describes the Rout at Benburb; Oliver Cromwell Reports on the Taking of Drogheda (Tredah); Pierce Ferriter, Outlaw Hero; The Rapparees; Turlough O'Carolan; O'Carolan's Address to Cian O'Hara's Cup; Costello and the Fair Oona; The Truth about Fontenoy; An Irish Priest Administers the Last Sacrament to the King of France; The Abbe Mac Geoghegan to the Irish Troops in the Service of France; Michael Dwyer; Billy Byrne of Ballymanus; The Battle of Ballygullen; Lord Edward Fitzgerald; John Philpot Curran; Curran Defends the Rebels; Curran and Robert Emmet; Robert Emmet, on Being Found Guilty of Treason; NEW LEADERS AT HOME AND ABROAD: Introduction; Daniel O'Connell; O'Connell at the Hill of Tara; O'Connell's Speech in the Magee Case; O'Connell's Last Case; Blind Raftery; Raftery the Poet; The Last Gleeman; John Barry, Father of the American Navy; The 69th in Virginia; Ambrose O'Higgins of Chile; The Wandering Hawk: Chief of the Fenians; Charles Stewart Parnell; Gladstone on Parnell: An Interview; Two Whose Names Have Gone Round the World -- Captain Boycott, Judge Lynch of Galway; How Dan Donnelly Knocked Out the British Champion; Champion of Champions; Gentleman Jim Corbett Defeats John L.; Beyond Life; Thomas MacDonagh, Poet and Insurrectionary Leader; Collins' Last Days; Provisioning a Blockaded District; John McCormack; WAYS AND TRADITIONS: The Harp; The Shamrock; A Four-Leaved Shamrock; Fairies: The Banshee and the Leprechaun; The Shillelagh; The Potato and the Clay Pipe; Potato Specialties: Traditional Recipes; Donnybrook Fair; Puck Fair; Wedding; The Strawboys at the Wedding; A Wake in the Old Times; A Husband Laments His Wife; Charms; A Few Prayers; Saint Patrick's Breastplate; A Few Riddles; The Toast; A Few Sayings; Oaths, Curses, Blessings; Ireland and Scotland Exchange Instruments; Irish Pipes and Pipers; Pilgrims; The Ploughman; Luck's Way in the Morning; Service in Scotland; A Boy Wins the Farmers' Race; Throwing the Sledge Hammer; These Dogs Are Older than History; The Otter Hunter's Story; The Old Fox Hunter; The Tavern; The Cruiskeen Lawn; Beside the Fire; Folkways in Aran; The Last Fortress of the Celt; Leaving Home; Do You Remember?; A 'Wake' for the Emigrant; FIRESIDE TALES: Introduction; The Way of the Leprechaun; The Kildare Lurikeen; The Shannon Mermaid; The Kerry Mermaid; Daniel Crowley and the Ghosts; The Student Who Disappeared; The Strange Tale of O'Neill's Son; The Woman Who Went to Hell; The Palace in the Rath; The Meanest Man in Munster; John Connors and the Fairies; Why the Weariness of the Blacksmiths Falls upon the Cowherds; The Piper and the Puca; How Little Fairly Outwitted His Commoch Brother; The Goban Saor; The Gloss Gavlen; The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire; The Horned Women; THE FACE OF THE LAND: Irish Landscape; Killarney; Loch Salt in Donegal; The Bright Dwellings and the Legend of Pope Gregory; A Dream of Inishmaan; The Ruins Speak; Life in the Castles; Blarney; Blarney Castle; Malahide; Maynooth Castle; A BIT OF THE NORTH: Once Alien Here; Winter; To a Hedgehog; The Battle of the Boyne; The Ould Orange Flute; Johnny's the Lad I Love; BALLADS AND SONGS: Introduction; John O'Dwyer of the Glens; The Shan Van Vocht; Ballynure Ballad; Molly Brannigan; I Know Where I'm Goin'; 'Tis Pretty to Be in Ballinderry; The Snowy Breasted Pearl; The Paisteen Fionn (The Fair-Haired Child); Eileen Aroon; She Moved Through the Fair; I Know My Love; The Coolin; 'Thank You, Ma'am,' Says Dan; The Girl I Left Behind Me; 'Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye'; The Lamentation of Hugh Reynolds; The Leprehaun; The Cruiskeen Lawn; The Star of the County Down; Finnegan's Wake; The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe; The Derry Air; Suantree; Index. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Colum was born Padraic Columb in a County Longford workhouse, where his father worked. He was the first of eight children. When the father lost his job in 1889, he moved to the United States to participate in the Colorado gold rush. Padraic and his mother and siblings remained in Ireland. When the father returned in 1892, the family moved to Glasthule, outside Dublin where his father was employed as Assistant Manager at Sandycove and Glasthule railway station. His son attended the local national school. When Colum's mother died in 1897, the family were temporarily split up. Padraic and one brother remained in Dublin while the father and remaining children moved back to Longford. Colum finished school the following year and at the age of seventeen, he passed an exam for and was awarded a clerkship in the Irish Railway Clearing House. He stayed in this job until 1903. During this period, Colum started to write and met a number of the leading Irish writers of the time, including W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and ?å. He also joined the Gaelic League and was a member of the first board of the Abbey Theatre. It was at this time that he dropped the 'b' from his surname. He became a regular user of the National Library of Ireland. Here he met James Joyce and the two became lifelong friends. He was awarded a five year scholarship to University College Dublin by a weathy American benefactor Thomas Kelly." -- Wikipedia

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