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The Irish Fairy Book

Alfred Perceval Graves

First published 1909
Publisher T. Fisher Unwin
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages xvi+355
Price 6/-

Original edition containing 32 stories & 12 poems (including Yeats' 'A Faery Song) as well as Graves' longer preface. T. Crofton Croker is credited here for the tale 'Daniel O'Rourke' while William Maginn is credited in the Frederick A. Stokes edition. See Wikipedia's entry for Thomas Crofton Croker for more info on this story. Though credited as author, Bryan O'Looney is actually the translator for "Lay of Oisin in the Land of Youth'. The original author is {{A|Michael Comyn}}. Edited by John O'Daly (1800-1878). J. Sheridan Le Fanu's name is here misspelled as Le Fann.

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 The Coming of Finn Standish James O'Grady Short Story
12 The Three Crowns Patrick Kennedy Short Story
25 The Grateful Beasts Patrick Kennedy Short Story
31 The Lepracaun or Fairy Shoemaker William Allingham Poem
35 Daniel O'Rourke T. Crofton Croker Short Story
45 Cuchulain of Muirthemne (The Birth of Cuchulain) Lady Gregory Short Story
52 The Boyhood of Cuchulain Standish James O'Grady Short Story
60 The Legend of Knockgrafton T. Crofton Croker Short Story
67 The Stolen Child W. B. Yeats Poem
71 Lay of Oisin in the Land of Youth Bryan O'Looney (in error) Short Story
85 The Adventures of Gilla na Chreck an Gour Patrick Kennedy Short Story
96 The Hill-Man and the House-Wife Juliana Horatia Ewing Short Story
99 The Giant Walker Sir Samuel Ferguson Poem
102 The Pursuit of the Gilla Dacker (abridged) Patrick Weston Joyce Short Story
123 Jamie Freel and the Young Lady Letitia Maclintock Short Story
133 A Legend of Knockmany William Carleton Short Story
149 The Ninepenny Fidil Joseph Campbell (poet) Poem
151 Festivities at the House of Conan of Ceann Sleibhe (extract) Nicholas O'Kearney Short Story
160 The White Trout Samuel Lover Short Story
164 The Wonderful Cake Patrick Kennedy Short Story
167 The Legend of the Little Weaver of Duleek Gate Samuel Lover Short Story
180 Mor of Cloyne Alfred Perceval Graves Poem
181 Lawn Dyarrig and the Knight of Terrible Valley Jeremiah Curtin Short Story
198 The Horned Women Lady Wilde Short Story
202 The Quare Gander Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Short Story
214 The Fairies' Passage James Clarence Mangan Poem
218 The King of the Black Desert Douglas Hyde Short Story
236 The Piper and the Púca Douglas Hyde Short Story
241 The Fairy Changeling Dora Sigerson Poem
243 The Talking Head of Donn-bo Eleanor Hull Short Story
246 The Bracket Bull Douglas Hyde Short Story
262 The Demon Cat Lady Wilde Short Story
265 The Abbot of Inisfalen William Allingham Poem
269 Morraha W. Larminie Short Story
286 The Kildare Pooka Patrick Kennedy Short Story
290 The King's Son Thomas Boyd (Irish) Poem
293 Murtough and the Witch Woman Eleanor Hull Short Story
307 The Red Pony W. Larminie Short Story
314 King O'Toole and St. Kevin Samuel Lover Short Story
322 Lament of the Last Leprechaun Nora Hopper Poem
324 The Corpse Watchers Patrick Kennedy Short Story
329 The Mad Pudding of Ballyboulteen William Carleton Short Story
346 The Voyage of Maeldune Alfred Tennyson Poem
ix Preface (The Irish Fairy Book) Alfred Perceval Graves Essay
v A Faery Song W. B. Yeats Poem

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Irish Fairy Book Cover 1994 Senate Trade Paperback Anthology Arthur Rackham x+310
The Irish Fairy Book Cover 2013 Dover Publications eBook Anthology