Question: Which was released first, "The Misadventures of Merlin Jones" or "Darby O'Gill and the Little People?"
Context: Darby O'Gill is a fictional Irishman who appears in the writings of British author Herminie Templeton Kavanagh, including her books "Darby O'Gill and the Good People" (1903) and "Ashes of Old Wishes and Other Darby O'Gill Tales" (1926). The Misadventures of Merlin Jones is a 1964 Walt Disney production starring Tommy Kirk and Annette Funicello.  Kirk plays a college student who experiments with mind-reading and hypnotism, leading to run-ins with a local judge.  Funicello plays his girlfriend (and sings the film's title song written by brothers Robert and Richard Sherman). Albert Sharpe (15 April 1885 – 13 February 1970) was an Irish stage and film actor.  His most famous roles were those of Darby O'Gill in Disney's "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" and as Finian McLonergan in the Original Broadway production of the musical "Finian's Rainbow".  (the film version, made in 1968, had Fred Astaire in the role.)  On screen he played Fiona's father Andrew in the MGM musical Brigadoon.  He was also a member of the Abbey Players.  His last ten years were spent in retirement.  He died in 1970 in Belfast at the age of 84. Darby O'Gill and the Little People is a 1959 Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery and Jimmy O'Dea, in a tale about a wily Irishman and his battle of wits with leprechauns.  The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and its screenplay written by Lawrence Edward Watkin after the books of Herminie Templeton Kavanagh. The Little People of the Pryor Mountains (known as Nirumbee or Awwakkulé in the Crow language) are a race of ferocious dwarves in the folklore of the Crow Nation, a Native American tribe.  The Little People were also seen as imparting spiritual wisdom, and played a major role in shaping the destiny of the Crow People through the dreams of the legendary Crow chief, Plenty Coups. Walt Disney's Treasury of Classic Tales is an American Sunday comic strip, which ran in newspapers from 13 July 1952 until 15 February 1987.  Each story adapted a different Disney film, such as Darby O'Gill and the Little People, Peter Pan, or Davy Crockett.  It was run in relatively few papers with 58 in 1957 and 55 in 1966 and was principally a vehicle for promoting new and re-released Disney films. Little People is a for children ages 6–36 months and to ages 3 and up, originally produced by Fisher-Price, Inc. in the 1960s as the Play Family People.  The current product line consists of playsets, mini-sets and accessories, books, CDs, VHS tapes, music cassette tapes, and DVDs focusing on various configurations of nine characters named Eddie, Sarah Lynn, Maggie, Michael, Sonya Lee, Tessa, Mia, Koby and Sofie.  Mattel reports that since the brand's launch, over 2-billion Little People figures have been sold in over 60 countries.  In 2016, Little People was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame. The Jean and Inez Bregant House, also known as the The Little Peoples' House, is a historic building located in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States.  The Bregants were little people who worked as Vaudeville performers.  This 1½-story Craftsman was one of the few houses built in the United States for little people.  The basically rectangular frame structure sits at the back of its lot.  The house was built by Inez's parents, whose house was immediately to the south, after Jean and Inez retired from performing.  It features a polygonal bay on the north side, and rectangular bay on the south, and a full size bungloid porch across the front.  The interior has four rooms and a bath.  Because the Bregants loved to entertain, the rooms, doorways and furnishings accommodated full-size people.  However, it also had a miniature clawfoot bathtub, stove, a low fireplace mantel, built-in benches that sat low-to-the-ground, as well as other scaled-down details.  After Inez died in 1969, the house was home to average sized people who undid some of its original details.  It is now owned by Preserve Council Bluffs who is restoring it to its original condition.  The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. Thomas Lee "Tommy" Kirk (born December 10, 1941) is an American former actor and later a businessman.  He is best known for his performances in a number of highly popular movies made by Walt Disney Studios such as "Old Yeller", "The Shaggy Dog", "The Swiss Family Robinson" and "The Misadventures of Merlin Jones", as well as beach party movies of the mid 1960s. The Monkey's Uncle is a 1965 Walt Disney production starring Tommy Kirk as genius college student Merlin Jones and Annette Funicello (Who was a member of the mouseketeers from The Mickey Mouse Club) as his girlfriend, Jennifer.  The title plays on the idiom "monkey's uncle" and refers to a chimpanzee named Stanley, Merlin's legal "nephew" (a legal arrangement resulting from an experiment to raise Stanley as a human); Stanley otherwise has little relevance to the plot.  Jones invents a man-powered airplane and a sleep-learning system.  The film is a sequel to the 1964 film "The Misadventures of Merlin Jones."
Answer: Darby O'Gill and the Little People