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Irish Fairy Tales is a retelling of ten Irish folktales by the Irish author James Stephens. The English illustrator Arthur Rackham provided interior artwork, including numerous black and white illustrations and sixteen color plates. The stories are set in a wooded, Medieval Ireland filled with larger-than-life hunters, warriors, kings, and fairies.
Irish folklore (Irish: béaloideas) refers to the folktales, balladry, music, dance and mythology of Ireland.It is the study and appreciation of how people lived. The folklore of Ireland includes banshees, fairies, leprechauns and other mythological creatures, and was typically shared orally by people gathering around, sharing stories.
The tale is similar to Aarne-Thompson's type 550, "the quest for the golden bird/firebird", [4] the Scottish How Ian Direach got the Blue Falcon and the German The Golden Bird. [2] Other fairy tales of this type include The Bird 'Grip', Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf, and The Nunda, Eater of People. [4]
Fairy tales from Ireland, short stories that belong to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic , enchantments , and mythical or fanciful beings. Ireland portal
Fair, Brown and Trembling is an Irish fairy tale collected by Jeremiah Curtin in Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland [1] and Joseph Jacobs in his Celtic Fairy Tales. [2]It is Aarne-Thompson type 510A.
The tale was first published in Thomas Crofton Croker's Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825). [2] [4] The plot outline is as follows: There was a hunchbacked man who made his living selling his plaited goods woven from straw or rush, nicknamed Lusmore (Irish: lus mór literally "great herb", referring to the 'foxglove' [5] [6]) because he habitually wore a sprig of this ...
"The Soul Cages" is a fairy tale invented by Thomas Keightley, originally presented as a genuine Irish folktale in T. Crofton Croker's Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825–28). [1] [2] It features a male merrow (merman) inviting a local fisherman to his undersea home. The "soul cages" in the title refer to a collection ...
Feather O' My Wing is an Irish fairy tale collected and published by Irish author Seumas MacManus. The tale belongs to the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom as a subtype, with few variants reported across Europe and in Ireland. In it, the heroine is delivered to a cursed or enchanted prince, but breaks a taboo and loses him; later ...
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