• Publication: The Irish Fairy BookPublication Record # 794361
• Editor: Alfred Perceval Graves
• Date: 1909-00-00
• Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin
• Price:
  6/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: xvi+355
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: Original edition containing 32 stories & 12 poems (including Yeats' 'A Faery Song) as well as Graves' longer preface. T. Crofton Croker is credited here for the tale 'Daniel O'Rourke' while William Maginn is credited in the Frederick A. Stokes edition. See Wikipedia's entry for Thomas Crofton Croker for more info on this story. Though credited as author, Bryan O'Looney is actually the translator for "Lay of Oisin in the Land of Youth'. The original author is Michael Comyn. Edited by John O'Daly (1800-1878). J. Sheridan Le Fanu's name is here misspelled as Le Fann.
• External IDs:
  • BL: 001491553
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1172704579

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  The Irish Fairy Book • interior artwork by George Denham
• v • A Faery Song • (1891) • poem by W. B. Yeats
• ix • Preface • essay by Alfred Perceval Graves
• 1 • The Coming of Finn • juvenile • (1892) • short story by Standish James O'Grady
• 12 • The Three Crowns • (1866) • short story by Patrick Kennedy
• 25 • The Grateful Beasts • (1870) • short story by Patrick Kennedy
• 31 • The Lepracaun or Fairy Shoemaker • poem by William Allingham (variant of The Lepracaun, or, Fairy Shoemaker 1865)
• 35 • Daniel O'Rourke • (1825) • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker [as by T. Crofton Croker]
• 45 • Cuchulain of Muirthemne (The Birth of Cuchulain) • (1902) • short story by Lady Gregory
• 52 • The Boyhood of Cuchulain • short story by Standish James O'Grady (variant of Boyhood of Cuculain 1878)
• 60 • The Legend of Knockgrafton • (1888) • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker [as by T. Crofton Croker]
• 67 • The Stolen Child • (1886) • poem by W. B. Yeats
• 71 • Lay of Oisin in the Land of Youth • short story by Michael Comyn [as by Bryan O'Looney (in error)]
• 85 • The Adventures of Gilla na Chreck an Gour • (1866) • short story by Patrick Kennedy (variant of Adventures of Gilla na Chreck an Gour)
• 96 • The Hill-Man and the House-Wife • juvenile • (1870) • short story by Juliana Horatia Ewing (variant of The Hillman and the Housewife)
• 99 • The Giant Walker • poem by Samuel Ferguson [as by Sir Samuel Ferguson]
• 102 • The Pursuit of the Gilla Dacker (abridged) • (1879) • short story by Patrick Weston Joyce
• 123 • Jamie Freel and the Young Lady • (1877) • short story by Letitia Maclintock
• 133 • A Legend of Knockmany • (1841) • short story by William Carleton
• 149 • The Ninepenny Fidil • (1906) • poem by Joseph Campbell (poet)
• 151 • Festivities at the House of Conan of Ceann Sleibhe (extract) • short story by Nicholas O'Kearney
• 160 • The White Trout • (1831) • short story by Samuel Lover (variant of The White Trout: A Legend of Cong)
• 164 • The Wonderful Cake • (1870) • short story by Patrick Kennedy
• 167 • The Legend of the Little Weaver of Duleek Gate • (1834) • short story by Samuel Lover
• 180 • Mor of Cloyne • (1901) • poem by Alfred Perceval Graves (variant of More of Cloyne)
• 181 • Lawn Dyarrig and the Knight of Terrible Valley • short story by Jeremiah Curtin (variant of Lawn Dyarrig, Son of the King of Erin, and the Knight of Terrible Valley 1894)
• 198 • The Horned Women • (1877) • short story by Lady Wilde
• 202 • The Quare Gander • [The Purcell Papers • 4] • (1840) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• 214 • The Fairies' Passage • (1848) • poem by James Clarence Mangan
• 218 • The King of the Black Desert • (1898) • short story by Douglas Hyde
• 236 • The Piper and the Púca • (1888) • short story by Douglas Hyde
• 241 • The Fairy Changeling • (1897) • poem by Dora Sigerson Shorter [as by Dora Sigerson]
• 243 • The Talking Head of Donn-bo • (1908) • short story by Eleanor Hull
• 246 • The Bracket Bull • short story by Douglas Hyde
• 262 • The Demon Cat • (1887) • short story by Lady Wilde
• 265 • The Abbot of Inisfalen • (1877) • poem by William Allingham
• 269 • Morraha • (1893) • short story by W. Larminie
• 286 • The Kildare Pooka • (1866) • short story by Patrick Kennedy
• 290 • The King's Son • (1906) • poem by Thomas Boyd (Irish)
• 293 • Murtough and the Witch Woman • (1908) • short story by Eleanor Hull (variant of Murtough and the Witch-Woman)
• 307 • The Red Pony • (1893) • short story by W. Larminie
• 314 • King O'Toole and St. Kevin • short story by Samuel Lover (variant of King O'Toole and His Goose 1831)
• 322 • Lament of the Last Leprechaun • (1894) • poem by Nora Hopper
• 324 • The Corpse Watchers • (1866) • short story by Patrick Kennedy
• 329 • The Mad Pudding of Ballyboulteen • short story by William Carleton (variant of Moll Roe's Marriage; or, The Pudding Bewitched 1841)
• 346 • The Voyage of Maeldune • (1880) • poem by Alfred Tennyson