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In the earlier parts of the 19th century, "Black Irish" was sometimes used in the United States to describe biracial people of African and Irish descent. [9] [10] By the 20th century, "Black Irish" had become an identity played out by Irish-American authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Robert E. Howard.
Black Irish, 2017 music album by American singer-songwriter Shannon McNally; Black Irish, 2007 independent film by Brad Gann; Black Irish Band, American folk music musical group; Black Irish Books, publishing house of American author Steven Pressfield; Black Irish Elm, wych elm cultivar originally discovered in Ireland
William Carleton by John Slattery, circa 1850s. William Carleton (4 March 1794, Prolusk (often spelt as Prillisk as on his gravestone), Clogher, County Tyrone – 30 January 1869, Sandford Road, Ranelagh, Dublin [1]) was an Irish writer and novelist.
Through her father's influence, Peig also grew up upon a rich oral tradition of Irish folklore, mythology, and local history, including local folk heroes like Piaras Feiritéar, faction fights at pattern days and market fairs before the Great Famine, and the lingering memory of Mass rocks and priest hunters under the Penal Laws.
Patrick Kennedy (early 1801 – 29 March 1873) [8] was a folklorist from County Wexford, Ireland.An educator turned bookseller, who also contributed various articles and reviews as a writer, he eventually became best-known as a collector and publisher of Irish folktales and folklore, particularly from his native County Wexford.
The Black Thief said that he had once been in more danger than the oldest and escaped with his life. The Knight said that if he told him that story, he would pardon the oldest son. The Black Thief told that he had once seen three witches going to sleep with their gold under the heads to keep the Black Thief from stealing it; he had put turf ...
A painting of Deirdre in A book of myths (1915), by Helen Stratton. Deirdre (/ ˈ d ɪər d r ə,-d r i / DEER-drə, -dree, Irish: [ˈdʲɛɾˠdʲɾʲə]; Old Irish: Derdriu [ˈdʲerʲðrʲĭŭ]) is a tragic heroine in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. She is also known by the epithet "Deirdre of the Sorrows" (Irish: Deirdre an Bhróin).
According to legend, the sight or sound of the coach is the harbinger of death. It warns of imminent death to either oneself or to a close relative. [1] In Ireland in particular the death coach is seen as a signifier of the inevitability of death, as the belief goes once it has come to Earth it can never return empty. [2]