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•  Irish Folk and Fairy Tales • interior artwork by Barbara Brown
• i • Introduction (Irish Folk and Fairy Tales) • essay by Gordon Jarvie
• 3 • The Fairies • (1850) • poem by William Allingham
• 6 • Jamie Freel and the Young Lady • (1877) • short story by Letitia Maclintock
• 15 • The Legend of Knockgrafton • (1825) • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker
• 21 • Frank Martin and the Fairies • (1841) • short story by William Carleton
• 26 • A Donegal Fairy • (1877) • short story by Letitia Maclintock
• 27 • The Hill-Man and the House-Wife • juvenile • (1870) • short story by Juliana Horatia Ewing (variant of The Hillman and the Housewife)
• 30 • The Fairies' Revenge • (1887) • short story by Lady Wilde
• 34 • The Stolen Child • (1886) • poem by W. B. Yeats
• 37 • Guleesh • (1892) • short story by Douglas Hyde (variant of Guleesh na Guss dhu 1890)
• 53 • The Phouka • (1887) • short story by Lady Wilde (variant of Fairy Help-The Phouka)
• 56 • The Red Man in Donegal • (1877) • short story by Letitia Maclintock (variant of Far Darrig in Donegal)
• 60 • Daniel O'Rourke • (1825) • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker
• 71 • The Lady of Gollerus • (1828) • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker
• 78 • Eonín • (unknown) • short story by Mary Patton
• 97 • The Leprehaun • (1887) • short story by Lady Wilde
• 102 • The Field of Thistles • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker (variant of The Field of Boliauns 1825)
• 109 • The Horned Women • (1877) • short story by Lady Wilde
• 112 • Bewitched Butter • (1876) • short story by Letitia Maclintock
• 117 • The Giant's Stairs • (1828) • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker
• 124 • A Legend of Knockmany • (1841) • short story by William Carleton
• 137 • Country-Under-Wave • (1907) • short story by Alice Furlong
• 152 • Edain the Queen • (1887) • short story by Lady Wilde
• 156 • How Cuchulain Got His Name • (1908) • short story by Eleanor Hull
• 162 • The Story of Deirdre • (1892) • short story by Joseph Jacobs
• 177 • The Coming of Finn • juvenile • (1892) • short story by Standish James O'Grady [as by Standish O'Grady]
• 186 • How Finn Found Bran • (1908) • short story by Elizabeth Grierson
• 198 • How Finn Obtained the Tooth of Knowledge • (1908) • short story by Elizabeth Grierson
• 203 • The Talking Head of Donn-bo • (1908) • short story by Eleanor Hull
• 206 • Murtough and the Witch Woman • (1908) • short story by Eleanor Hull (variant of Murtough and the Witch-Woman)
• 217 • Fair, Brown, and Trembling • (1890) • short story by Jeremiah Curtin
• 228 • The Lazy Beauty and Her Aunts • (1870) • short story by Patrick Kennedy
• 234 • King O'Toole and His Goose • (1831) • short story by Samuel Lover
• 239 • The Story of the Little Bird • (1827) • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker
• 242 • St Brigid's Cloak • (1866) • short story by Patrick Kennedy
• 244 • A Legend of St Brigid • (1925) • short story by Maud Joynt
• 246 • How the Shannon Acquired Its Name • (1866) • short story by Patrick Kennedy
• 248 • Fior Usga • (1825) • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker
• 252 • Glossary (Irish Folk and Fairy Tales) • essay by uncredited