Tales of the West of Ireland
Author : James Berry
Publisher :
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Atlantic Coast (Ireland)
ISBN : 9780196473857
Author : James Berry
Publisher :
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Atlantic Coast (Ireland)
ISBN : 9780196473857
Author : Sean Henry
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 10,79 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
A collection of folk history from County Mayo.
Author : William Larminie
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 21,56 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Folklore
ISBN :
Author : Josie Gray
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 22,54 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A collection of short stories by Josie Gray and Tess Gallagher.
Author : Myles Dungan
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 2011-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1616081007
Here is the full story of the Irish immigrants and their decedents whose hard work helped make the West what it is today. Learn about the Irish members of the Donner party, forced to consume human flesh to survive the winter; mountain men like Thomas Fitzpatrick, who discovered the South Pass through the Rockies; Ellen “Nellie” Cashman, who ran boarding houses and bought and sold claims in Alaska, Arizona, and Nevada; and Maggie Hall, who became known as the “whore with a heart of gold.” A fascinating and entertaining look at the history of the American West, this book will surprise many and make every Irish American proud.
Author : James Berry
Publisher : Colin Smythe
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 39,40 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Berry, who lived his entire life in the West of Ireland, collected these tales from the people of Mayo and Galway. Mainly handed down by word of mouth, they tell of poor communities in a bleak and beautiful countryside where secret societies, man-hun
Author : Jeremiah Curtin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0486120376
Twenty folk tales represent hundreds of years of the collective Irish imagination. Vivid descriptions of battles with giants, humans imprisoned in animals' bodies, heroes with incredible strength, and more.
Author : Henry Glassie
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 2012-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307828247
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 Glassie With black-and-white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Author : Mike Harding
Publisher :
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 31,28 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780718133597
In his fourth walking book, the author returns to the country of his ancestors to experience the countryside, the music and the legends of the west coast of Ireland.
Author : W. B. Yeats
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0008190097
A magical collection of twenty classic Irish fairy tales by one of Ireland’s greatest writers, the Nobel Prize-winning W. B. Yeats – with intricate, traditional illustrations throughout by P. J. Lynch.