Full text search Excerpts Subject catalogs Subject index Series index Shopping cart contents or Print an order form . O'Sullivan, Sean, editor Folktales of Ireland . With a Foreword by Richard M. Dorson.
Few countries can boast such a plentitude of traditional folktales as Ireland.
In 1935, the creation of The Irish Folklore Commission set in motion the first organized efforts of collecting and studying a multitude of folktales, both written as well as those of the Irish oral tradition. The Commission has collected well over a million pages of manuscripts. Folktales of Ireland offers chief archivist Sean O'Sullivan's representation of this awe-inspiring collection. These tales represent the first English language collection of Gaelic folktales. He tells us that his archives contain more than a million and a half pages of manuscript.