• Publication: Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish PeasantryPublication Record # 652498
• Editor: W. B. Yeats
• Date: 1888-00-00
• Publisher: Walter Scott
• Pages: xviii+326
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes:

  • First edition.
  • Title page states "Edited and selected by W. B. Yeats."
  • The text is followed by 6 unnumbered pages of advertisements.
  • In this first edition, all names beginning with "Mc" are printed with a superscript c that has often been mistaken for an apostrophe and appears as such in numerous reprintings and secondary sources.
  • Data from Archive.org scan.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• ix • Introduction (Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry) • essay by W. B. Yeats
• 1 • The Trooping Fairies • essay by W. B. Yeats
• 3 • The Fairies • (1850) • poem by William Allingham
• 5 • Frank Martin and the Fairies • (1841) • short story by William Carleton
• 9 • The Priest's Supper • (1825) • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker [as by T. Crofton Croker]
• 13 • The Fairy Well of Lagnanay • (1833) • poem by Samuel Ferguson
• 16 • Teig O'Kane (Tadhg Ó Cáthán) and the Corpse • short story by Douglas Hyde (variant of Teig O'Kane and the Corpse)
• 31 • Paddy Corcoran's Wife • (1840) • short story by William Carleton
• 33 • Cusheen Loo • (1846) • poem by uncredited [as by J. J. Callanan]
• 35 • The White Trout: A Legend of Cong • (1831) • short story by Samuel Lover [as by S. Lover]
• 38 • The Fairy Thorn: An Ulster Ballad • poem by Samuel Ferguson [as by Sir Samuel Ferguson]
• 40 • The Legend of Knockgrafton • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker [as by T. Crofton Croker]
• 46 • A Donegal Fairy • (1877) • short story by Letitia Maclintock
• 47 • The Trooping Fairies: Changelings • essay by W. B. Yeats
• 48 • The Brewery of Egg-Shells • (1825) • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker [as by T. Crofton Croker]
• 51 • The Fairy Nurse • (1836) • poem by Edward Walsh
• 52 • Jamie Freel and the Young Lady: A Donegal Tale • (1877) • short story by Letitia Maclintock (variant of Jamie Freel and the Young Lady) [as by Miss Letitia Maclintock]
• 59 • The Stolen Child • (1886) • poem by W. B. Yeats
• 61 • The Trooping Fairies: The Merrow • essay by W. B. Yeats
• 61 • The Soul Cages • (1828) • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker [as by T. Crofton Croker]
• 75 • Flory Cantillon's Funeral • (1828) • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker [as by T. Crofton Croker]
• 80 • The Solitary Fairies: Lepracaun. Cluricaun. Far Darrig. • essay by W. B. Yeats
• 81 • The Lepracaun; or, Fairy Shoemaker • (1865) • poem by William Allingham (variant of The Lepracaun, or, Fairy Shoemaker)
• 84 • Master and Man • (1825) • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker [as by T. Crofton Croker]
• 90 • Far Darrig in Donegal • (1877) • short story by Letitia Maclintock [as by Miss Letitia Maclintock]
• 94 • The Solitary Fairies: The Pooka • essay by W. B. Yeats
• 95 • The Piper and the Púca • short story by Douglas Hyde
• 97 • Daniel O'Rourke • (1825) • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker [as by T. Crofton Croker]
• 105 • The Kildare Pooka • (1866) • short story by Patrick Kennedy
• 108 • The Solitary Fairies: The Banshee • essay by W. B. Yeats
• 108 • How Thomas Connolly Met the Banshee • (1885) • short story by John Todhunter [as by J. Todhunter]
• 112 • A Lamentation: For the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald, Knight, of Kerry, Who Was Killed in Flanders, 1642 • (1846) • poem by James Clarence Mangan [as by Clarence Mangan]
• 113 • The Banshee of the Mac Carthys • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker [as by T. Crofton Croker]
• 128 • Ghosts • essay by W. B. Yeats
• 129 • A Dream • (1854) • poem by William Allingham
• 130 • Grace Connor • (1876) • short story by Letitia Maclintock [as by Miss Letitia Maclintock]
• 132 • A Legend of Tyrone • (1887) • poem by Ellen O'Leary
• 134 • The Black Lamb • (1887) • short story by Lady Wilde
• 134 • Song of the Ghost • (1880) • poem by Alfred Perceval Graves [as by Alfred Percival Graves]
• 136 • The Radiant Boy • short story by Catherine Crowe [as by Mrs. Crow]
• 139 • The Fate of Frank McKenna • (1840) • short story by William Carleton
• 146 • Witches, Fairy Doctors • essay by W. B. Yeats
• 149 • Bewitched Butter (Donegal) • (1876) • short story by Letitia Maclintock (variant of Bewitched Butter) [as by Miss Letitia Maclintock]
• 151 • A Queen's County Witch • [Legends and Tales of the Queen's County Peasantry] • (1839) • short story by John Keegan [as by uncredited]
• 154 • The Witch Hare • (1839) • short story by Mr. S. C. Hall and Mrs. S. C. Hall
• 155 • Bewitched Butter (Queen's County) • [Legends and Tales of the Queen's County Peasantry] • (1839) • short story by John Keegan (variant of Bewitched Butter) [as by uncredited]
• 165 • The Horned Women • (1877) • short story by Lady Wilde
• 169 • The Witches' Excursion • (1866) • short story by Patrick Kennedy
• 170 • The Confessions of Tom Bourke • (1825) • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker [as by T. Crofton Croker]
• 185 • The Pudding Bewitched • short story by William Carleton (variant of Moll Roe's Marriage; or, The Pudding Bewitched 1841)
• 200 • Tyeer-na-n-oge • essay by W. B. Yeats
• 201 • The Legend of O'Donoghue • (1825) • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker [as by T. Crofton Croker]
• 203 • Rent-Day • (1828) • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker [as by uncredited]
• 206 • Loughleagh (Lake of Healing) • (1825) • short story by uncredited
• 212 • Hy-Brasail—The Isle of the Blest • (1830) • poem by Gerald Griffin
• 213 • The Phantom Isle • (1863) • essay by Giraldus Cambrensis [as by Geraldus Cambrensis]
• 214 • Saints, Priests • essay by W. B. Yeats
• 215 • The Priest's Soul • (1887) • short story by Lady Wilde
• 220 • The Priest of Coloony • poem by W. B. Yeats (variant of The Ballad of Father O'Hart)
• 222 • The Story of the Little Bird • (1827) • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker [as by T. Crofton Croker]
• 224 • Conversion of King Laoghaire's Daughters • short story by uncredited
• 224 • King O'Toole and His Goose • short story by Samuel Lover [as by S. Lover]
• 229 • The Demon Cat • (1887) • short story by Lady Wilde
• 231 • The Long Spoon • (1866) • short story by Patrick Kennedy
• 232 • The Countess Kathleen O'Shea • short story by Timothée Trimm (trans. of Les marchands d'ames 1865) [as by uncredited]
• 235 • The Three Wishes • (1839) • novelette by William Carleton [as by W. Carleton]
• 260 • Giants • essay by W. B. Yeats
• 260 • The Giant's Stairs • (1828) • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker [as by T. Crofton Croker]
• 266 • A Legend of Knockmany • (1841) • short story by William Carleton
• 280 • The Twelve Wild Geese • (1870) • short story by Patrick Kennedy
• 286 • The Lazy Beauty and Her Aunts • (1870) • short story by Patrick Kennedy [as by uncredited]
• 290 • The Haughty Princess • (1870) • short story by Patrick Kennedy
• 294 • The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla • (1866) • short story by Patrick Kennedy
• 296 • Munachar and Manachar • short story by Douglas Hyde
• 299 • Donald and His Neighbours • (unknown) • short story by uncredited
• 303 • The Jackdaw • (unknown) • short story by uncredited
• 306 • The Story of Conn-Eda; or, The Golden Apples of Lough Erne • (1855) • short story by Abraham McCoy and Nicholas O'Kearney
• 319 • Notes (Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry) • essay by W. B. Yeats