Henry Glassie

Irish Folk Tales (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307828248
• Artikelnr.: 39206840

Autorenporträt

HENRY GLASSIE is a folklorist and emeritus College Professor of Folklore at Indiana University. He has written nearly twenty books on folklore of the areas of Ireland, Turkey, Bangladesh, and the United States, three of which have been named by The New York Times as "Notable Books of the Year." Glassie served as the state folklorist for Pennsylvania, received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was a president of the American Folklore Society and the Vernacular Architecture Forum. He was nominated to the National Council on the Humanities by President Bill Clinton on which he served in 2001.

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE
xiii   INTRODUCTION At the End of a Short Winter’s Day
5 Connections
10 Tradition
11 Communication
21 A Last Word
26   THE TALES   THE OLD STORY The Legend of Knockfierna
35 Finn and His Men Bewitched
37 The King of Ireland’s Son
39   FAITH SAINTS 1. The Baptism of Conor MacNessa
51 2. Saint Patrick
52 3. Saint Patrick on Inishmore
52 4. Saint Patrick and Crom Dubh
53 5. Saint Brigit
58 6. Saint Columcille
61 7. Columcille’s Coffin
63 8. Saint Kevin
64 9. Saint Finbar
65   THE PRIEST AND HIS PEOPLE 10. James Murray and Saint Martin
66 11. The Best Road to Heaven
67 12. The Man from Kilmacoliver
68 13. The Pious Man
69 14. An Actual Saint
70 15. Old Thorns and Old Priests
71 16. Priests and Farming Men
72 17. Saved by the Priest
73 18. The Doom
74 19. The Right Cure
76 20. The Wolf’s Prophecy
78   WIT THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH 22. The Three Questions
83 23. The Farmer’s Answers
84 24. Half a Blanket
85 25. The Shadow of the Glen
86 26. A Hungry Hired Boy
87 27. The First Mirror
89 28. Robin’s Escape
90   WITS AND POETS 29. Jonathan Swift, Dean of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral
92 30. Daniel O’Connell
93 31. Owen Roe O’Sullivan
97 32. Robert Burns
100 33. Terry the Grunter
102 34. Thomas Moore and the Tramp
102   TALL TALES 35. John Brodison and the Policeman
103 36. A Big Potato
104 37. The Fox and the Ranger
106 38. The Horse’s Last Drunk
109 39. Hare and Hound
110 40. Sleepy Pendoodle
110 41. A Medical Expert from Lisnaskea
113 42. George Armstrong’s Return
114   OUTWITTING THE DEVIL 43. The Lawyer and the Devil
116 44. Coals on the Devil’s Hearth
117   MYSTERY DEATH AND TOKENS 45. No Man Goes Beyond His Day
121 46. A Light Tokens the Death of Mr. Corrigan
122 47. A Clock Token
123 48. The Banshee Cries for the O’Briens
123 49. The Banshee Cried for the Boyles
124 50. Experience of the Banshee
124   GHOSTS 51. Grandfather’s Ghost
127 52. Terrible Ghosts
127 53. The Soldier in the Haunted House
131 54. Daniel Crowley and the Ghosts
133 55. Ghosts Along the Arney
137 56. The Grave of His Fathers
141   AWAY 57. The Coffin
142 58. The Capture of Bridget Purcell
143 59. Taken
145 60. How the Shoemaker Saved His Wife
147   ENCOUNTERS WITH FAIRIES 61. The Mountain Elf
148 62. Inishkeen’s on Fire
149 63. The Blood of Adam
150 64. We Had One of Them in the House for a While
151 65. Fairy Property
153 66. The Blacksmith of Bedlam and the Fairy Host
155   FAIRY TRAITS AND TREASURE 67. Fairy Forths
157 68. Gortdonaghy Forth
158 69. The Fairies Ride from Gortdonaghy to Drumane
160 70. Lanty’s New House
161 71. Jack and the Cluricaune
162 72. Bridget and the Lurikeen
164 73. Fairy Tales
166 74. The Fairy Shilling
169 75. The Breaking of the Forth
170 76. Dreams of Gold
171 77. The Castle’s Treasure
172   ENCHANTED IN NATURE 78. The Air Is Full of Them
173 79. The Feet Water
174 80. The Fairy Rabbit and the Blessed Earth of Tory
176 81. The Cats’ Judgment
177 82. Never Ask a Cat a Question
178 83. Cats Are Queer Articles
180 84. Tom Moore and the Seal Woman
182 85. The Swine of the Gods
184   ILLNESS AND WITCHCRAFT 86. A Pig on the Road from Gort
185 87. The Crookened Back
185 88. Maurice Griffin the Fairy Doctore
188 89. Biddy Early
191 90. The Black Art
193 91. Magical Theft
194 92. Paudyeen O’Kelly and the Weasel
195   STRANGE SOUNDS AND VISIONS OF WAR 93. One Queer Experience
201 94. Many a One Saw What We Saw
202   HISTORY ANCIENT DAYS 95. The Old Times in Ireland
207 96. The Bath of the White Cows
208   WAR 97. The Battle of the Ford of Biscuits
210 98. Cromwell
213 99. Cromwell’s Nin
214 100. Patrick Sarsfield
215 101. Sarsfield Surrenders and Rory Takes to the Hills
215   RAPPAREES 102. Black Francis
216 103. Shan Beragh
218 104. Willie Brennan
220   LATER DAYS 105. Wicklow in the Rising of 1798
222 106. The Famine
231 107. Victory in the Time of Famine
232 108. Ruined by Poetry
233   FIRESIDE TALES FENIAN TALES 109. The Birth of Finn MacCumhail
237 110. The High King of Lochlann and the Fenians of Erin
245 111. Usheen’s Return to Ireland
256   MATURITY 112. Fair Brown, and Trembling
257 113. The Corpse Watchers
264 114. A Widow’s Son
267 115. Jack and Bill
270 116. The Mule
277 117. The King of Ireland’s Son
280   WITH AND FAITH 118. Huddon and Duddon and Donald O’Leary
285 119. The Three Wishes
292 120. Willy the Wisp
311 121. The Buideach, the Tinker, and the Black Donkey
313 122. The Man Who Had No Story
319     BIBLIOGRAPHY
325 NOTES
335 PERMISSIONS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
352