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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)

This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and translated them near the end of the 1800s. - Summary by Michele Eaton

Genre(s): Culture & Heritage Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

Language: English

Keyword(s): poetry (1796), fairy tales (261), myths (128), ghosts (78), folk tales (25), Irish (17)

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Introduction	Juliet Brown	00:18:24
Play 01	The Trooping Fairies - The Fairies	Juliet Brown	00:06:20
Play 02	Frank Martin and The Fairies	Juliet Brown	00:08:36
Play 03	The Priest's Supper - The Fairy Well of Lagnanay	Juliet Brown	00:11:15
Play 04	Teig O'Kane and the Corpse	Juliet Brown	00:29:26
Play 05	Paddy Corcoran's Wife - Cusheen Loo the White Trout: A Legend of Cong	Juliet Brown	00:12:01
Play 06	The Fairy Thorn - The Legend of Knockgrafton - A Donegal Fairy	Juliet Brown	00:14:48
Play 07	Changelings The Brewery of Egg-shells - The Fairy Nurse	Juliet Brown	00:08:20
Play 08	Jamie Freel and the Young Lady - The Stolen Child	Juliet Brown	00:15:23
Play 09	The Merrow The Soul Cages	Juliet Brown	00:27:04
Play 10	Flory Cantillon's Funeral	Juliet Brown	00:07:56
Play 11	The Solitary Fairies -The Lepracaun, or, Fairy Shoemaker	Diana Schmidt	00:03:38
Play 12	Master and Man - Far Darrig in Donegal	Esther C	00:27:47
Play 13	The Piper and the Puca - Daniel O'Rourke	Amelia Chesley	00:21:07
Play 14	The Kildare Pooka - How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee	Douglas Taylor	00:17:51
Play 15	A Lamantation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald - The Banshee of the MacCarthys	Douglas Taylor	00:35:56
Play 16	Ghosts - A Dream	Kristin G.	00:04:58
Play 17	Grace Conner	Aubrey Anne	00:04:08
Play 18	A Legend of Tyrone	Aubrey Anne	00:02:49
Play 19	The Black Lamb - Song of the Ghost	Kristin G.	00:03:26
Play 20	The Radiant Boy - The Fate of Frank M'Kenna	Esther C	00:20:55
Play 21	Witches, Fairy Doctors Bewitched	Alexandra Helms	00:08:26
Play 22	Bewitched Butter (Donegal) - A Queen's County Witch	Kristin G.	00:11:01
Play 23	The Witch Hare - Bewitched Butter (Queen's County)	Esther C	00:24:41
Play 24	The Horned Women - The Witches Excursion	Kristin G.	00:10:20
Play 25	The Confessions of Tom Bourke	Esther C	00:31:44
Play 26	The Pudding Bewitched	Esther C	00:29:44
Play 27	Tyeer-Na-N-Oge The Legend of O'Donoghue	Jane Muir	00:07:44
Play 28	Rent-Day - Loughleagh (Lake of Healing)	NoelBadrian	00:20:15
Play 29	Hy-Brasail - The Isle of the Blest - The Phantom Isle	Jessi McDaniel	00:04:16
Play 30	Saints, Priests The Priest's Soul - The Priest of Coloony	Lucy Kempton	00:15:10
Play 31	The Story of the Little Bird - Conversion King Laoghaire's Daughters	Kristin G.	00:05:27
Play 32	King O'Toole and His Goose	Aiken	00:09:58
Play 33	The Devil The Demon Cat - The Long Spoon - The Countess Kathleen	Michele Eaton	00:13:35
Play 34	The Three Wishes Part 1	Michele Eaton	00:25:13
Play 35	The Three Wishes Part 2	Michele Eaton	00:29:35
Play 36	Giants - The Giant's Stairs	Kyle B Jones	00:14:58
Play 37	A Legend of Knockmany	Kyle B Jones	00:25:47
Play 38	Kings, Queens, Princesses, Earls, Robbers - The Twelve Wild Geese	Brian Naylor	00:10:38
Play 39	The Lazy Beauty and Her Aunts	NoelBadrian	00:12:30
Play 40	The Haughty Princess - The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla	Kyle B Jones	00:13:37
Play 41	Munachar and Manachar - Donald and his Neighbours	Deon Gines	00:18:12
Play 42	The Jackdaw	Jessi McDaniel	00:06:08
Play 43	The Story of Conn-eda	clarinetcarrot	00:29:41

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