Irish Folktales by Henry Glassie (English) Paperback Book

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Robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic, this collection of 125 lively tales tells the story of Ireland. Spanning the centuries from the first wars of the ancient Irish kings through the Celtic Renaissance of Yeats to our own time, they are set in cities, villages, fields and forests from the wild gaelic western coast to the modern streets of Dublin and Belfast.

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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 GlassieWith black-and-white illustrations throughoutPart of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

Author Biography

HENRY GLASSIE is 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 The New York Times as "Notable Books of the Year."Glassie 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.

Table of Contents

PREFACE // xiiiINTRODUCTIONAt the End of a Short Winter's Day // 5Connections // 10Tradition // 11Communication // 21A Last Word // 26THE TALES THE OLD STORYThe Legend of Knockfierna // 35Finn and His Men Bewitched // 37The King of Ireland's Son // 39FAITHSAINTS1. The Baptism of Conor MacNessa // 512. Saint Patrick // 523. Saint Patrick on Inishmore // 524. Saint Patrick and Crom Dubh // 535. Saint Brigit // 586. Saint Columcille // 617. Columcille's Coffin // 638. Saint Kevin // 649. Saint Finbar // 65THE PRIEST AND HIS PEOPLE10. James Murray and Saint Martin // 6611. The Best Road to Heaven // 6712. The Man from Kilmacoliver // 6813. The Pious Man // 6914. An Actual Saint // 7015. Old Thorns and Old Priests // 7116. Priests and Farming Men // 7217. Saved by the Priest // 7318. The Doom // 7419. The Right Cure // 7620. The Wolf's Prophecy // 78WIT THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH 22. The Three Questions // 8323. The Farmer's Answers // 8424. Half a Blanket // 8525. The Shadow of the Glen // 8626. A Hungry Hired Boy // 8727. The First Mirror // 8928. Robin's Escape // 90WITS AND POETS29. Jonathan Swift, Dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral // 9230. Daniel O'Connell // 9331. Owen Roe O'Sullivan // 9732. Robert Burns // 10033. Terry the Grunter // 10234. Thomas Moore and the Tramp // 102TALL TALES35. John Brodison and the Policeman // 10336. A Big Potato // 10437. The Fox and the Ranger // 10638. The Horse's Last Drunk // 10939. Hare and Hound // 11040. Sleepy Pendoodle // 11041. A Medical Expert from Lisnaskea // 11342. George Armstrong's Return // 114OUTWITTING THE DEVIL43. The Lawyer and the Devil // 11644. Coals on the Devil's Hearth // 117MYSTERYDEATH AND TOKENS45. No Man Goes Beyond His Day // 12146. A Light Tokens the Death of Mr. Corrigan // 12247. A Clock Token // 12348. The Banshee Cries for the O'Briens // 12349. The Banshee Cried for the Boyles // 12450. Experience of the Banshee // 124GHOSTS 51. Grandfather's Ghost // 12752. Terrible Ghosts // 12753. The Soldier in the Haunted House // 13154. Daniel Crowley and the Ghosts // 13355. Ghosts Along the Arney // 13756. The Grave of His Fathers // 141AWAY57. The Coffin // 14258. The Capture of Bridget Purcell // 14359. Taken // 14560. How the Shoemaker Saved His Wife // 147ENCOUNTERS WITH FAIRIES 61. The Mountain Elf // 14862. Inishkeen's on Fire // 14963. The Blood of Adam // 15064. We Had One of Them in the House for a While // 15165. Fairy Property // 15366. The Blacksmith of Bedlam and the Fairy Host // 155FAIRY TRAITS AND TREASURE67. Fairy Forths // 15768. Gortdonaghy Forth // 15869. The Fairies Ride from Gortdonaghy to Drumane // 16070. Lanty's New House // 16171. Jack and the Cluricaune // 16272. Bridget and the Lurikeen // 16473. Fairy Tales // 16674. The Fairy Shilling // 16975. The Breaking of the Forth // 17076. Dreams of Gold // 17177. The Castle's Treasure // 172ENCHANTED IN NATURE78. The Air Is Full of Them // 17379. The Feet Water // 17480. The Fairy Rabbit and the Blessed Earth of Tory // 17681. The Cats' Judgment // 17782. Never Ask a Cat a Question // 17883. Cats Are Queer Articles // 18084. Tom Moore and the Seal Woman // 18285. The Swine of the Gods // 184ILLNESS AND WITCHCRAFT86. A Pig on the Road from Gort // 18587. The Crookened Back // 18588. Maurice Griffin the Fairy Doctore // 18889. Biddy Early // 19190. The Black Art // 19391. Magical Theft // 19492. Paudyeen O'Kelly and the Weasel // 195STRANGE SOUNDS AND VISIONS OF WAR93. One Queer Experience // 20194. Many a One Saw What We Saw // 202HISTORYANCIENT DAYS95. The Old Times in Ireland // 20796. The Bath of the White Cows // 208WAR97. The Battle of the Ford of Biscuits // 21098. Cromwell // 21399. Cromwell's Nin // 214100. Patrick Sarsfield // 215101. Sarsfield Surrenders and Rory Takes to the Hills // 215RAPPAREES102. Black Francis // 216103. Shan Beragh // 218104. Willie Brennan // 220LATER DAYS105. Wicklow in the Rising of 1798 // 222106. The Famine // 231107. Victory in the Time of Famine // 232108. Ruined by Poetry // 233FIRESIDE TALESFENIAN TALES109. The Birth of Finn MacCumhail // 237110. The High King of Lochlann and the Fenians of Erin // 245111. Usheen's Return to Ireland // 256MATURITY112. Fair Brown, and Trembling // 257113. The Corpse Watchers // 264114. A Widow's Son // 267115. Jack and Bill // 270116. The Mule // 277117. The King of Ireland's Son // 280WITH AND FAITH118. Huddon and Duddon and Donald O'Leary // 285119. The Three Wishes // 292120. Willy the Wisp // 311121. The Buideach, the Tinker, and the Black Donkey // 313122. The Man Who Had No Story // 319BIBLIOGRAPHY // 325NOTES // 335PERMISSIONS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS // 352

Review

"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."—Roger D. Abrahams, editor of African Folktales"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."— Library Journal"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."—Los Angeles Times Book Review"Vivid and surprising  . . . The Irish gift for prolixity and verbal magic glistens throughout Glassie's collection."—Chicago Magazine

Review Quote

"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." -Roger D. Abrahams, editor of African Folktales "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 peop≤ the commentary and notes reveal the humanity of Glassie. Very highly recommended." - Library Journal "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." - Los Angeles Times Book Review "Vivid and surprising . . . The Irish gift for prolixity and verbal magic glistens throughout Glassie's collection." - Chicago Magazine

Excerpt from Book

THE LEGEND OF KNOCKFIERNA Cork T. Crofton Croker (1825) It 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. It 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." Carroll 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." It 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. "Not far your way," said the farmer, for such his appearance bespoke him. "I''m only going to the top of this hill here." "And what might take you there," said O''Daly, "at this time of the night?" "Why then," replied the farmer, "if you want to know, ''tis the Good People." "The fairies, you mean," said O''Daly. "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. "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." Carroll 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. A 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. Following 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. "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." No sooner said than do≠ 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. Carroll 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.

Details ISBN0679774122 Author Henry Glassie Short Title IRISH FOLK TALES Pages 368 Language English ISBN-10 0679774122 ISBN-13 9780679774129 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1997 Imprint Random House Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Residence IN, US Affiliation Indiana University DOI 10.1604/9780679774129 UK Release Date 1997-02-11 AU Release Date 1997-02-11 NZ Release Date 1997-02-11 US Release Date 1997-02-11 Publisher Random House USA Inc Series The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library Publication Date 1997-02-11 Replaces 9780394746371 DEWEY 398.209415 Audience General We've got this

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