Irish Ghost Stories

Patrick Byrne, Monica Byrne, Diarmuid, (copyright holder) Byrne, Monica Byrne, Diarmuid, (copyright holder) Byrne, Diarmuid Byrne (copyright holder)

• Publisher: Mercier Press
• Year: 1999
• Print ISBN: 9781856357098
• eBook ISBN: 9781856357272
• Edition: 9

Irish Ghost Stories contains stories that tell of spooky goings-on in almost every part of the country. They include the tales of the Wizard Earl of Kildare, the Scanlan Lights of Limerick, Buttoncap of Antrim, Maynooth College's haunted room, Loftus Hall in Wexford, and an account of how the poet Francis Ledwidge appeared to an old friend in County Meath. The country of Ireland is full of old castles with secret rooms, and while some of the stories are obvious figments of lively imaginations, there are other tales that cannot be easily explained away.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgments
• 1 – In History’s Pages
• 2 – In old Dublin
• 3 – Dublin ... after 1900
• 4 – The Banshee and other death warnings
• 5 – Poltergeists
• 6 – Haunted castles
• 7 – The Hungry Grass
• 8 – From Kerry to Belfast
• 9 – A voice from Space and other strange stories
• 10 – The Theatre
• 11 – Strange Tales of Country Places
• 12 – In Dublin Old and New
• 13 – The Phantom Cat of Killakee and Boss Croker’s Return
• 14 – A Chilling link with Bloody Sunday and The Old Lady with the Limp
• 15 – ‘Don Gypsy’ And His Blood Brother and Other Strange Dreams
• 16 – More Haunted Castles
• 17 – Haunted Battlefields
• 18 – Lake Monsters: Natural or Supernatural
• 19 – Two Tales From Folklore