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