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FAIRY LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS OF THE SOUTH OF IRELAND - 40 Folk and Fairy Legends - 40 Celtic Legends and Tales

Author : Thomas Crofton Croker

Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd

Page : 338 pages

File Size : 12,27 MB

Release : 2020-12-08

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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It is well known that the Irish have the “Gift of the Gab.” Never has it been so prevalent in this collection of 40 tales and legends collected from the Irish peasants and storytellers of Southern Ireland. The wit of peasants, energies of nature, poverty and their superstitions and beliefs are all evident. Nothing which illustrates in the slightest degree the popular Fairy Creed of Ireland has been sacrificed in this volume. Not only do you get some wonderful Irish fairy-tales, but it also gives you some of the background information on how those stories came to be told. Some of the stories within this volume are: The Legend Of Knocksheogowna, The Priest's Supper, Legend Of Bottle Hill, The Haunted Cellar, The Little Shoe, The Bunworth Banshee, The Legend Of Lough Gur, The Enchanted Lake, The Lady Of Gollerus, Diarmid Bawn, The Piper, The Lucky Guest, The Legend Of Cairn Thierna, The Giant's Stairs. So we invite you to download a copy of this ebook, get yourself a hot toddy and curl up on your favourite chair and be prepared to be entertained. Not only are they ideal entertainment for adults and young adults, but also for reading to children during the day but also at bedtime. 10% of the profit from the sale of this book is donated to charities. So what are you waiting for, download this book now! ============================== Keywords/Tags: Fairy Legends, folklore, myths, south, southern, Irish, Ireland, Shefro, Knocksheogowna, Knockfierna, Knockgrafton, Priest, Supper, Brewery, Egg Shells, Bottle Hill, Confessions, Tom Bourke, Cluricaune, Haunted Cellar, Little Shoe, Banshee, Bunworth, Mccarthy, Phooka, Spirit Horse, Daniel O'rourke, Crooked Back, Thierna Na Oge, Fior Usga, Cormac And Mary, Lough Gur, Enchanted Lake, O'donoghue, Merrow, Lady Of Gollerus, Flory Cantillon, Funeral, Lord Of Dunkerron, Wonderful, Tune, Dullahan, Good Woman, Hanlon's Mill, Death Coach, Headless Horseman, Fir Darrig, Diarmid Bawn, Piper, Teigue Of The Lee, Ned Sheehy, Excuse, Lucky Guest, Treasure Legends, Dreaming, Tim Jarvis, Rent Day, Linn-Na-Payshtha, Rocks, Stones, Cairn Thierna, Candle, Clough-Na-Cuddy, Giant's Stairs,



Children's Literature Collections

Author : Keith O'Sullivan

Publisher : Springer

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 47,24 MB

Release : 2017-05-19

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1137597577

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This book provides scholars, both national and international, with a basis for advanced research in children’s literature in collections. Examining books for children published across five centuries, gathered from the collections in Dublin, this unique volume advances causes in collecting, librarianship, education, and children’s literature studies more generally. It facilitates processes of discovery and recovery that present various pathways for researchers with diverse interests in children’s books to engage with collections. From book histories, through bookselling, information on collectors, and histories of education to close text analyses, it is evident that there are various approaches to researching collections. In this volume, three dominant approaches emerge: history and canonicity, author and text, ideals and institutions. Through its focus on varied materials, from fiction to textbooks, this volume illuminates how cities can articulate a vision of children's literature through particular collections and institutional practices.





Folktales and Fairy Tales [4 volumes]

Author : Anne E. Duggan Ph.D.

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 2815 pages

File Size : 48,78 MB

Release : 2016-02-12

Category : Social Science

ISBN :

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Encyclopedic in its coverage, this one-of-a-kind reference is ideal for students, scholars, and others who need reliable, up-to-date information on folk and fairy tales, past and present. Folktales and fairy tales have long played an important role in cultures around the world. They pass customs and lore from generation to generation, provide insights into the peoples who created them, and offer inspiration to creative artists working in media that now include television, film, manga, photography, and computer games. This second, expanded edition of an award-winning reference will help students and teachers as well as storytellers, writers, and creative artists delve into this enchanting world and keep pace with its past and its many new facets. Alphabetically organized and global in scope, the work is the only multivolume reference in English to offer encyclopedic coverage of this subject matter. The four-volume collection covers national, cultural, regional, and linguistic traditions from around the world as well as motifs, themes, characters, and tale types. Writers and illustrators are included as are filmmakers and composers—and, of course, the tales themselves. The expert entries within volumes 1 through 3 are based on the latest research and developments while the contents of volume 4 comprises tales and texts. While most books either present readers with tales from certain countries or cultures or with thematic entries, this encyclopedia stands alone in that it does both, making it a truly unique, one-stop resource.



Folklore and Nationalism in Europe During the Long Nineteenth Century

Author :

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 439 pages

File Size : 39,20 MB

Release : 2012-07-25

Category : History

ISBN : 9004211837

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Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book brings together work in the fields of History, Literary Studies, Music and Architecture to examine the place of folklore and representations of ‘the people’ in the development of nations across Europe during the nineteenth century.



The Celts [2 volumes]

Author : John T. Koch

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 961 pages

File Size : 32,89 MB

Release : 2012-08-08

Category : History

ISBN : 1598849654

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This succinct, accessible two-volume set covers all aspects of Celtic historical life, from prehistory to the present day. The study of Celtic history has a wide international appeal, but unfortunately many of the available books on the subject are out-of-date, narrowly specialized, or contain incorrect information. Online information on the Celts is similarly unreliable. This two-volume set provides a well-written, up-to-date, and densely informative reference on Celtic history that is ideal for high school or college-aged students as well as general readers. The Celts: History, Life, and Culture uses a cross-disciplinary approach to explore all facets of this ancient society. The book introduces the archaeology, art history, folklore, history, linguistics, literature, music, and mythology of the Celts and examines the global influence of their legacy. Written entirely by acknowledged experts, the content is accessible without being simplistic. Unlike other texts in the field, The Celts: History, Life, and Culture celebrates all of the cultures associated with Celtic languages at all periods, providing for a richer and more comprehensive examination of the topic.



Genres and Provenance in the Comedy of W.S. Gilbert

Author : Richard Moore

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 356 pages

File Size : 22,37 MB

Release : 2019-10-28

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1000699897

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In The Progress of Fun W.S. Gilbert was considered, not as a ‘classic Victorian’, but as part of an on-going comedic continuum stretching from Aristophanes to Joe Orton and beyond. Pipes and Tabors continues the story, covering the comedic experience differently by reference to genres. Here – treated in relation to a line of significant others – we discover how Gilbert responded to areas such as the Pastoral, the Irish drama, nautical scenarios, melodrama, sensation-theatre, the nonsensemode, pantomime spectaculars, fairy plays, and classical farce. Also included is a wider look at his relation to various European musical forms and (for instance) to the English line of wit and the Elizabethan pamphleteers. To consider a writer not so much by a study of individual works as by threads of linking generic modes tells us a great deal about cultural interconnections and the richly textured nature of theatrical experience. Pipes and Tabors offers a tapestry of overlapping genres and treatments, showing not just the design of the finished products but the shreds and patches which form the underside of the weave. According to Dorothy L. Sayers, life itself offers us the apparent loose ends of a design which will only be revealed from the front after death. In terms of Gilbertian comedy, we are privileged to be able to track both the effort of the weave and the skill of the finished product. On the way we will also discover some new links and sub-text implications about other 19th century denigrated groups which were buried from sight for too long.



National Dreams

Author : Jennifer Schacker

Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press

Page : 205 pages

File Size : 22,75 MB

Release : 2015-03-26

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0812204166

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Fairy tales and folktales have long been mainstays of children's literature, celebrated as imaginatively liberating, psychologically therapeutic, and mirrors of foreign culture. Focusing on the fairy tale in nineteenth-century England, where many collections found their largest readership, National Dreams examines influential but critically neglected early experiments in the presentation of international tale traditions to English readers. Jennifer Schacker looks at such wondrous story collections as Grimms' fairy tales and The Arabian Nights in order to trace the larger stories of cross-cultural encounter in which these books were originally embedded. Examining aspects of publishing history alongside her critical readings of tale collections' introductions, annotations, story texts, and illustrations, Schacker's National Dreams reveals the surprising ways fairy tales shaped and were shaped by their readers. Schacker shows how the folklore of foreign lands became popular reading material for a broad English audience, historicizing assumed connections between traditional narrative and children's reading. The tales imported and presented by such British writers as Edgar Taylor, T. Crofton Croker, Edward Lane, and George Webbe Dasent were intended to stimulate readers' imaginations in more ways than one. Fairy-tale collections provided flights of fancy but also opportunities for reflection on the modern self, on the transformation of popular culture, and on the nature of "Englishness." Schacker demonstrates that such critical reflections were not incidental to the popularity of foreign tales but central to their magical hold on the English imagination. Offering a theoretically sophisticated perspective on the origins of current assumptions about the significance of fairy tales, National Dreams provides a rare look at the nature and emergence of one of the most powerful and enduring genres in English literature.



The English dialect dictionary

Author : Joseph Wright

Publisher : Рипол Классик

Page : 440 pages

File Size : 10,2 MB

Release :

Category : History

ISBN : 5518930976

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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years. Volume 6. Supplement, A-Y.