Great folk tales of Old Ireland

McGarry, Mary. (Added Author). Hook, Richard. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0517106175
ISBN: 9780517106174
Physical Description: print
111 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Bell, ©1972.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

The fate of the children of Lir / Joseph Jacobs -- Fior Usga / T. Crofton Croker -- The white trout : a legend of Cong / Samuel Lover -- The boyhood deeds of Cuchulainn or the boyhood of Cuchulainn (9th century) / translated by Standish Hayes O'Grady -- The Kildare pooka / Patrick Kennedy -- How Cormac Macart went to faery / Joseph Jacobs -- The brewery of egg-shells / T. Crofton Croker -- The story of Deirdre / Joseph Jacobs -- How the Shannon acquired its name / Patrick Kennedy -- The king and the bishop / Samuel Lover -- Fin MacCumhail and the son of the king of Alba / Jeremiah Curtin -- The Fianna (15th or 16th century) / translated by Standish Hayes O'Grady -- Diarmid and Grainne / adapted by Mary McGarry -- Oisin in Tir na nOg / P.W Joyce -- St. Brigid's cloak / Patrick Kennedy -- The giant's stairs / T. Crofton Croker -- The crookened back / T. Crofton Croker.