Great fairy tales of Ireland
By: compiled and introduced by Mary McGarry ; illus. by Richard Hook.
Publisher: Frederick Muller Limited
Published: 1979
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Tales -- Ireland.; Fairy tales.
Description: Irish fairy tales about fairies, leprechauns, islands, banshees and more span the centuries from the earliest oral traditions up to recent times.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 127.
Table of contents: title: Jamie Freel and the Young Lady / Letita Maclintock; title: The Fairies / William Allingham; title: Hie Over to England / Retold by Mary McGarry; title: The Captive Piper / Retold by Mary McGarry; title: Two Tales of Leprechauns / Introduction by Mary McGarry; title: The Magic Shilling / Retold by Mary McGarry; title: The Leprechaun of Carrigadhroid / Retold by Mary McGarry; title: The Phouka / Lady Wilde; title: Fair, Brown, and Trembling / Joseph Jacobs; title: The well of D'Yerree-in-Dowan / Douglas Hyde; title: Country-Under-Wave / Alice Furlong; title: The Enchanted Island / Anonymous; title: The Fairy Tree / Retold by Mary McGarry; title: The Fairy Thorn / Sir Samuel Ferguson; title: The Son of Bad Counsel / Retold by Mary McGarry; title: The White Fairy Horse / Dermott MacManus; title: Edain the Queen / Lady Wilde; title: Earl Desmond and the Banshee / Anonymous; title: The Harp of the Dagda Mor / Alice Furlong.