Prose · 1888

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

Edited by W. B. Yeats

An anthology Yeats edited for Walter Scott's Camelot Series in 1888, with his own introduction and notes. Most tales are by other hands, among them Croker, Carleton, Lady Wilde, Patrick Kennedy and Douglas Hyde.

78 chapters · 8 h 25 min

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  1. 1Introduction13 min
  2. 2The Trooping Fairies4 min
  3. 3The Fairies1 min
  4. 4Frank Martin and the Fairies6 min
  5. 5The Priest’s Supper6 min
  6. 6The Fairy Well of Lagnanay2 min
  7. 7Teig O’Kane (Tadhg O Cáthán) and the Corpse26 min
  8. 8Paddy Corcoran’s Wife3 min
  9. 9Cusheen Loo1 min
  10. 10The White Trout; a Legend of Cong5 min
  11. 11The Fairy Thorn3 min
  12. 12The Legend of Knockgrafton8 min
  13. 13A Donegal Fairy1 min
  14. 14Changelings1 min
  15. 15The Brewery of Egg-Shells4 min
  16. 16The Fairy Nurse1 min
  17. 17Jamie Freel and the Young Lady10 min
  18. 18The Stolen Child1 min
  19. 19The Merrow1 min
  20. 20The Soul Cages22 min
  21. 21Flory Cantillon’s Funeral6 min
  22. 22The Solitary Fairies2 min
  23. 23The Lepracaun; or, Fairy Shoemaker2 min
  24. 24Master and Man11 min
  25. 25Far Darrig in Donegal5 min
  26. 26The Pooka1 min
  27. 27The Piper and the Puca4 min
  28. 28Daniel O’Rourke14 min
  29. 29The Kildare Pooka5 min
  30. 30The Banshee1 min
  31. 31How Thomas Connolly Met the Banshee6 min
  32. 32A Lamentation1 min
  33. 33The Banshee of the Mac Carthys22 min
  34. 34Ghosts2 min
  35. 35A Dream1 min
  36. 36Grace Connor2 min
  37. 37A Legend of Tyrone1 min
  38. 38The Black Lamb1 min
  39. 39Song of the Ghost1 min
  40. 40The Radiant Boy3 min
  41. 41The Fate of Frank M’Kenna10 min
  42. 42Witches, Fairy Doctors6 min
  43. 43Bewitched Butter (Donegal)2 min
  44. 44A Queen’s County Witch6 min
  45. 45The Witch Hare1 min
  46. 46Bewitched Butter (Queen’s County)15 min
  47. 47The Horned Women4 min
  48. 48The Witches’ Excursion4 min
  49. 49The Confessions of Tom Bourke25 min
  50. 50The Pudding Bewitched22 min
  51. 51T’yeer-na-n-Oge1 min
  52. 52The Legend of O’Donoghue3 min
  53. 53Rent-Day4 min
  54. 54Loughleagh (Lake of Healing)9 min
  55. 55Hy-Brasail—the Isle of the Blest1 min
  56. 56The Phantom Isle1 min
  57. 57Saints, Priests1 min
  58. 58The Priest’s Soul9 min
  59. 59The Priest of Coloony1 min
  60. 60The Story of the Little Bird3 min
  61. 61Conversion of King Laoghaire’s Daughters1 min
  62. 62King O’Toole and His Goose6 min
  63. 63The Demon Cat3 min
  64. 64The Long Spoon2 min
  65. 65The Countess Kathleen O’Shea5 min
  66. 66The Three Wishes39 min
  67. 67Giants1 min
  68. 68The Giant’s Stairs9 min
  69. 69A Legend of Knockmany21 min
  70. 70The Twelve Wild Geese10 min
  71. 71The Lazy Beauty and Her Aunts8 min
  72. 72The Haughty Princess5 min
  73. 73The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla4 min
  74. 74Munachar and Manachar6 min
  75. 75Donald and His Neighbours7 min
  76. 76The Jackdaw4 min
  77. 77The Story of Conn-Eda; Or, the Golden Apples of Lough Erne21 min
  78. 78Notes12 min

Text: Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, edited and selected by W. B. Yeats (Walter Scott, London, 1888). Public domain.