Irish Folk Tales by Glassie, Henry -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Preface Introduction

At the End of a Short Winter’s Day Connections Tradition Communication A Last Word

The Tales The Old Story

The Legend of Knockfierna Finn and His Men Bewitched The King of Ireland’s Son

Faith

Saints

1 The Baptism of Conor MacNessa 2 Saint Patrick 3 Saint Patrick on Inishmore 4 Saint Patrick and Crom Dubh 5 Saint Brigit 6 Saint Columcille 7 Columcille’s Coffin 8 Saint Kevin 9 Saint Finbar

The Priest and His People

10 James Murray and Saint Martin 11 The Best Road to Heaven 12 The Man from Kilmacoliver 13 The Pious Man 14 An Actual Saint 15 Old Thorns and Old Priests 16 Priests and Farming Men 17 Saved by the Priest 18 The Doom 19 The Right Cure 20 Hell and Heaven 21 The Wolf’s Prophecy

Wit

The Wise and the Foolish

22 The Three Questions 23 The Farmer’s Answers 24 Half a Blanket 25 The Shadow of the Glen 26 A Hungry Hired Boy 27 The First Mirror 28 Robin’s Escape

Wits and Poets

29 Jonathan Swift, Dean of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral 30 Daniel O’Connell 31 Owen Roe O’Sullivan 32 Robert Burns 33 Terry the Grunter 34 Thomas Moore and the Tramp

Tall Tales

35 John Brodison and the Policeman 36 A Big Potato 37 The Fox and the Ranger 38 The Horse’s Last Drunk 39 Hare and Hound 40 Sleepy Pendoodle 41 A Medical Expert from Lisnaskea 42 George Armstrong’s Return

Outwitting The Devil

43 The Lawyer and the Devil 44 Coals on the Devil’s Hearth

Mystery

Death and Tokens

45 No Man Goes Beyond His Day 46 A Light Tokens the Death of Mr. Corrigan 47 A Clock Token 48 The Banshee Cries for the O’Briens 49 The Banshee Cries for the Boyles 50 Experience of the Banshee

Ghosts

51 Grandfather’s Ghost 52 Terrible Ghosts 53 The Soldier in the Haunted House 54 Daniel Crowley and the Ghosts 55 Ghosts Along the Arney 56 The Grave of His Fathers

Away

57 The Coffin 58 The Capture of Bridget Purcell 59 Taken 60 How the Shoemaker Saved His Wife

Encounters with Fairies

61 The Mountain Elf 62 Inishkeen’s on Fire 63 The Blood of Adam 64 We Had One of Them in the House for a While 65 Fairy Property 66 The Blacksmith of Bedlam and the Fairy Host

Fairy Traits and Treasure

67 Fairy Forths 68 Gortdonaghy Forth 69 The Fairies Ride from Gortdonaghy to Drumane 70 Lanty’s New House 71 Jack and the Cluricaune 72 Bridget and the Lurikeen 73 Fairy Tales 74 The Fairy Shilling 75 The Breaking of the Forth 76 Dreams of Gold 77 The Castle’s Treasure

Enchanted Nature

78 The Air Is Full of Them 79 The Feet Water 80 The Fairy Rabbit and the Blessed Earth of Tory 81 The Cats’ Judgment 82 Never Ask a Cat a Question 83 Cats Are Queer Articles 84 Tom Moore and the Seal Woman 85 The Swine of the Gods

Illness and Witchcraft

86 A Pig on the Road from Gort 87 The Crookened Back 88 Maurice Griffin the Fairy Doctor 89 Biddy Early 90 The Black Art 91 Magical Theft 92 Paudyeen O’Kelly and the Weasel

Strange Sounds and Visions of War

93 One Queer Experience 94 Many a One Saw What We Saw

History

Ancient Days

95 The Old Times in Ireland 96 The Bath of the White Cows

War

97 The Battle of the Ford of Biscuits 98 Cromwell 99 Cromwell’s Bible 100 Patrick Sarsfield 101 Sarsfield Surrenders and Rory Takes to the Hills

Rapparees

102 Black Francis 103 Shan Bernagh 104 Willie Brennan

Later Days

105 Wicklow in the Rising of 1798 106 The Famine 107 Victory in the Time of Famine 108 Ruined by Poetry

Fireside tales

Fenian Tales

109 The Birth of Finn MacCumhail 110 The High King of Lochlann and the Fenians of Erin 111 Usheen’s Return to Ireland

Maturity

112 Fair, Brown, and Trembling 113 The Corpse Watchers 114 A Widow’s Son 115 Jack and Bill 116 The Mule 117 The King of Ireland’s Son

Wit and Faith

118 Huddon and Duddon and Donald O’Leary 119 The Three Wishes 120 Willy the Wisp 121 The Buideach, the Tinker, and the Black Donkey 122 The Man Who Had No Story

Bibliography Notes Permissions Acknowledgments

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