Irish Wonders

D. R. (David Russell) Mcanally

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Title: Irish Wonders

Author: D. R. McAnally, Jr.

Release Date: October 7, 2006 [Ebook 19486]

Language: English

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IRISH WONDERS***

"GOD SAVE YER HOLINESS." Frontispiece.

Irish Wonders

by D. R. McAnally, Jr.

Edition 1, (October 7, 2006)

THE GHOSTS, GIANTS, POOKAS, DEMONS, LEP- RECHAWNS, BANSHEES, FAIRIES, WITCHES, WIDOWS, OLD MAIDS, AND OTHER MARVELS OF THE EMERALD ISLE Popular Tales as told by the People WEATHERVANE BOOKS - NEW YORK

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Irish Wonders

Copyright © MDCCCLXXXVIII Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 77-72113 All rights reserved. This edition is published by Weathervane Books a division of Imprint Society, Inc., distributed by Crown Publishers, Inc. a b c d e f g h

IN MEMORY OF YEARS OF FRIENDSHIP, This Volume IS INSCRIBED TO M R . JOSEPH B. McCULLAGH, AS A MODEST TRIBUTE OF PERSONAL RESPECT.

PREFACE.

The wonderful imaginative power of the Celtic mind is never more strikingly displayed than in the legends and fanciful tales which people of the humbler walks of life seldom tire of telling. Go where you will in Ireland, the story-teller is there, and on slight provocation will repeat his narrative; amplifying, explain- ing, embellishing, till from a single fact a connected history is evolved, giving motives, particulars, action, and result, the whole surrounded by a rosy wealth of rustic imagery and told with dramatic force an actor might envy. The following chapters comprise an effort to present this phase of unwritten Celtic liter- ature, the material having been collected during a recent lengthy visit, in the course of which every county in the island was traversed from end to end, and constant association had with the peasant tenantry. As, however, in perusing a drama each reader for himself supplies stage-action, so, in the following pages, he is requested to imagine the charms of gesticulation and intonation, for no pen can do justice to a story told by Irish lips amid Irish surroundings.

Contents

PREFACE. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. THE SEVEN KINGS OF ATHENRY. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

TAMING THE POOKA. . . . . . . THE SEXTON OF CASHEL. . . . SATAN'S CLOVEN HOOF. . . . . THE ENCHANTED ISLAND. . . . HOW THE LAKES WERE MADE. ABOUT THE FAIRIES. . . . . . . THE BANSHEE. . . . . . . . . . . THE ROUND TOWERS. . . . . . . THE POLICE. . . . . . . . . . . . . THE LEPRECHAWN. . . . . . . . THE HENPECKED GIANT. . . . . SATAN AS A SCULPTOR. . . . . THE DEFEAT OF THE WIDOWS.

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