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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Publication Date
c1985
Language
English
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From the Book - 1st ed.
The old story. The legend of Knockfierna
Finn and his men bewitched
The king of Ireland's son. Faith. The baptism of Conor MacNessa
Saint Patrick
Saint Patrick on Inishmore
Saint Patrick and Crom Dubh
Saint Brigit
Saint Columcille
Columcille's coffin
Saint Kevin
Saint Finbar
James Murray and Saint Martin
The best road to heaven
The man from Kilmacoliver
The pious man
An actual saint
Old thorns and old priests
Priests and farming men
Saved by the priest
The doom
The right cure
Hell and heaven
The wolf's prophecy. 505 0 Wit. The three questions
The farmer's answers
Half a blanket
The shadow of the glen
A hungry hired boy
The first mirror
Robin's escape
Jonathan Swift, dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral
Daniel O'Connell
Owen Roe O'Sullivan
Robert Burns
Terry the Grunter
Thomas Moore and the tramp
John Brodison and the policeman
A big potato
The fox and the ranger
The horse's last drunk
Hare and hound
Sleepy Pendoodle
A medical expert from Lisnaskea
George Armstrong's return
The lawyer and the devil
Coals on the devil's hearth. Mystery. No man goes beyond his day
A light tokens the death of Mr. Corrigan
A clock taken
The banshee cries for the O'Briens
The banshee cries for the Boyles
Experience of the banshee
Grandfather's ghost
Terrible ghosts
The soldier in the haunted house
Daniel Crowley and the ghosts
Ghosts along the Arney
The grave of his fathers
The coffin
The capture of Bridget Purcell
Taken
How the shoemaker saved his wife
The mountain elf
Inishkeen's on fire
The blood of Adam
We had one of them in the house for a while
Fairy property
The blacksmith of bedlam and the fairy host
Fairy forths
Gortdonaghy forth
The fairies ride from Gortdonaghy to Drumane
Lanty's new house
Jack and the cluricaune
Bridget and the lurikeen
Fairy tales
The fairy shilling
The breaking of the forth
Dreams of gold
The castle's treasure
The air is full of them
The feet water
The fairy rabbit and the blessed earth of Tory
The cats' judgment
Never ask a cat a question
Cats are queer articles
Tom Moore and the seal woman
The swine of the gods
A pig on the road from Gort
The crookened back
Maurice Griffin the fairy doctor
Biddy Early
The black art
Magical theft
Paudyeen O'Kelly and the weasel
One queer experience
Many a one saw what we saw. History. The old times in Ireland
The bath of the white cows
The Battle of the Ford of Biscuits
Cromwell
Cromwell's Bible
Patrick Sarsfield
Sarsfield surrenders and Rory takes to the hills
Black Francis
Shan Bernagh
Willie Brennan
Wicklow in the rising of 1798
The famine
Victory in the time of famine
Ruined by poetry. Fireside tales. The birth of Finn MacCumhail
The high king of Lochlann and the Fenians of Erin
Usheen's return to Ireland
Fair, brown, and trembling
The corpse watchers
A widow's son
Jack and Bill
The mule
The king of Ireland's son
Huddon and Duddon and Donald O'Leary
The three wishes
Willy the Wisp
The buideach, the tinker, and the black donkey
The man who had no story.
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9780679774129
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