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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. x, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ISBN 9781859580172, 1859580173 OCLC 59835660 Alfred Perceval Graves was a poet, folklorist, and the father of Robert Graves. He spent his career documenting and translating the songs, legends, and stories of Ireland, and The Irish Fairy Book - published by T. Fisher Unwin in 1909 - represents the fullest expression of that work. It is a collection of forty-three stories drawn from across the Irish tradition: the Tuatha de Danaan, the Sidhe, the banshee, the puca, the fairy hills, and the countless tales of mortals who crossed paths with the otherworld and came back changed. This is not a children's anthology. The stories in this collection are drawn from the full breadth of Irish folklore: tragic, comic, strange, and occasionally brutal. They include contributions from major figures in the Irish literary tradition - Standish O'Grady, Lady Wilde, William Allingham, Samuel Lover, and others - alongside translations of older Irish-language material. Graves understood that these stories were not curiosities. They were the living imagination of a people, preserved in written form at a moment when that imagination was in danger of being lost. The Irish fairy tradition differs from its English or continental equivalents in significant ways. The fairies of Irish legend - the Sidhe - are not charming or benevolent by default. They are powerful, unpredictable, and indifferent to human convenience. The stories in this collection reflect that. They are worth reading not as nostalgia but as literature: precise, strange, and rooted in a worldview that takes the invisible seriously. ; Facsimile. of: ed. published: London : A & C Black, 1938.-Previous ed.: London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1909 ; A collection of more than forty folk and fairy tales from Ireland, featuring such characters as Cuchulain, leprechauns, and pookas, as retold by various authors including Lady Wilde, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and Alfred Tennyson ;Contents : The Coming of Finn -- The Three Crowns -- The Grateful Beasts -- The Lepracaun -- Daniel O'Rourke -- Cuchulain of Muirthemne -- The Boyhood of Cuchulain -- The Legend of Knockgrafton -- The Stolen Child -- The Land of Youth -- The Adventures of Gilla Na Chreck -- The Hill-Man and the House-Wife -- The Giant Walker -- The Pursuit of the Gilla Dacker -- Jamie Freel and the Young Lady -- A Legend of Knockmany -- The Ninepenny Fidil -- Festivities at the House of Conana -- The White Trout -- The Wonderful Cake -- The Legend of the Little Weaver -- Mor of Cloyne -- Lawn Dyarrig -- The Horned Women -- The Quare Gander -- The Fairies' Passage -- The King of the Black Desert -- The Piper and the Puca -- The Fairy Changeling -- The Talking Head of Donn-Bo -- The Bracket Bull -- The Demon Cat -- The Abbot of Inisfalen -- Morraha -- The Kildare Pooka -- The King's Son -- Murtough and the Witch-Woman -- The Red Pony -- King O'toole and St. Kevin -- Lament of the Last Leprechaun -- The Corpse Watchers -- The Mad Pudding -- The Voyage of Maeldune ; authors include Standish James O'Grady -- Patrick Kennedy -- William Allingham -- T. Crofton Croker -- Lady Gregory -- Bryan O'Looney -- John O'Daly -- W. B. Yeats -- Mrs. Ewing -- Sir Samuel Ferguson -- Patrick W. Joyce -- Letitia McClintock -- William Carleton -- Joseph Campbell -- Nicholas O'Kearney -- Samuel Lover -- Alfred Perceval Graves -- Jeremiah Curtin -- Lady Wilde -- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu -- James Clarence Mangan -- Douglas Hyde -- Dora Sigerson -- Eleanor Hull -- W. Larminie -- Thomas Boyd -- Nora Hopper -- Alfred Tennyson -- George Denham ; illustrations by George Denham (1880-1917) ; foxing; remainder mark at bottom ; VG. George Denham (illustrator). Book. …

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