Irish Stories and Folklore

A Collection of Thirty-Six Classic Tales

Stephen Brennan

• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781510725645
• eBook ISBN:
  9781634507943
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

For a comparatively small country, Ireland's contributions to the world of literature have been enormous. From the older tradition, Irish writers have inherited a sense of wonder in the face of nature, a narrative style that tends toward the deliberately exaggerated or absurd, a keen sense of the power of satire. These themes carry through the entire canon of Irish literature, up until modern times. Stephen Brennan brings us this collection of classic stories, essays, and fairytales that inform the past and therefore, the present, of our most beloved fiction.
This collection of thirty-six stories includes the influential works of Ireland's most treasured authors, including:
• Oscar Wilde
• Jonathan Swift
• James Joyce
• W. B. Yeats
• And so many more!
In Irish Stories and Folklore, the reader can revisit old favorites like Oscar Wilde's short story, "The Canterville Ghost" and discover lesser known treasures such as, "The Orangeman: Or the Honest Boy and the Thief" by Maria Edgeworth. The imaginative stories contained in this volume are sure to engage the mind and delight readers looking to enhance their knowledge of the rich history of Irish literature and folklore.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Jamie Freel and the Young Lady Letitia Maclintock
• The Nightingale and the Rose Oscar Wilde
• A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift
• The Pursuit of the Gilla Daker Patrick Weston Joyce
• The Keening Woman Patrick Pearse
• Grace James Joyce
• King O’Toole and His Goose S. Lover
• The Host of the Air William Butler Yeats
• Chronicle of the Voyages of Saint Brendan Stephen Vincent Brennan
• The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde
• The Orange-man: Or the Honest Boy and the Thief Maria Edgeworth
• The Priest’s Soul Lady Wilde
• The Rising of the Moon John Keegan Casey
• High Tea at McKeown’s Edith Somerville & Martin Ross
• Teig O’Kane and the Corpse Douglas Hyde
• Some of Gulliver’s Adventures Jonathan Swift
• The Hill-Man and the Housewife Juliana Horatia Ewing
• How Thomas Connolly Met the Banshee J. Todhunter
• The Coming of Finn Standish James O’Grady
• An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification Maria Edgeworth
• Sea-Stories Lady Gregory
• Devereux’s Dream Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Young King Oscar Wilde
• Resolutions When I Come To Be Old Jonathan Swift
• The Piper and the Púca Douglas Hyde
• ‘It Was His First Christmas Dinner’ James Joyce
• The Tinker’s Dog Edith Somerville & Martin Ross
• Brennan on the Moor Traditional
• Murtough and the Witch Woman Eleanor Hull
• The Thief Patrick Pearse
• The Devil, The Demon Cat Lady Wilde
• The Enchanted Cave of Cesh Corran James Stephens
• The Star-Child Oscar Wilde
• An Encounter James Joyce
• Directions to Servants Jonathan Swift
• The Ballad of Father Gilligan William Butler Yeats
• A Historical Anecdote Thomas Francis Brennan