The Essential Celtic Folklore Collection

Explore the treasures of Celtic folklore in one essential collection. This compilation traverses the rich tapestry of tales from Ireland, featuring works like "Legends and Stories of Ireland" by Samuel Lover, Lady Gregory's captivating retellings in "Cuchulain of Muirthemne," and the mythical narratives captured in "The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel." Dive into the mystical world of "Gods and Fighting Men" by Lady Gregory and revel in W.B. Yeats's "The Celtic Twilight." Enjoy the legendary fictions collected by Patrick Kennedy and journey through the fantastical realms populated by heroes, saints, and fairies. From the hauntingly beautiful children of Lir to the heroic exploits of Cuchulain, this collection is a journey through the heart of Celtic mythology and folklore, encompassing the tales that have shaped the cultural heritage of the Celts.

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Lady Gregory 1852-1932
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of Celtic folklore:

Legends and Stories of Ireland- Samuel Lover
Glossary
King O'Toole and St Kevin
Lough Corrib
A Legend of Lough Mask
The White Trout
The Battle of the Berrins; or, the Double Funeral
Father Roach
The Priest's Story
The King and the Bishop
Jimmy the Fool
The Catastrophe
The Devil's Mill
The Gridiron; or Paddy Mullowney's Travels in France
Paddy the Piper
The Priest's Ghost
New Potatoes
Paddy the Sport
The White Horse of the Peppers
The Legend of the Little Weaver of Duleek Gate
Conclusion of the White Horse of the Peppers
The Curse of Kishogue
The Fairy Finder
Cuchulain of Muirthemne- Lady Gregory
Preface by W. B. Yeats
I. Birth of Cuchulain
II. Boy Deeds of Cuchulain
III. Courting of Emer
IV. Bricrius Feast
V. The Championship of Ulster
VI. The High King of Ireland
VII. Fate of the Sons of Usnach
VIII. Dream of Angus Og
IX. Cruachan
X. The Wedding of Maine Morgor
XI. The War for the Bull of Cuilagne
XII. Awakening of Ulster
XIII. The Two Bulls
XIV. The Only Jealously of Emer
XV. Advice to a Prince
XVI. Sons of Doel Dermait
XVII. Battle of Rosnaree
XVIII. The Only Son of Aoife
XIX. The Great Gathering at Muirthemne
XX. Death of Cuchulain
Note by W.B. Yeats
Notes by Lady Gregory
The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel
The Cattle-Raid of Cooley
Gods and Fighting Men- Lady Gregory
The Celtic Twilight- W. B. Yeats
Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts by Patrick Kennedy
Preface
Dedication
Household Stories
Jac and His Comrades
The Bad Stepmother
Adventures of Gilla na Chreck an Gour
Jack the Master and Jack the Servant
I'll be Wiser the next Time
The Three Crowns
The Corpse Watchers
The Brown Bear of Norway
The Goban Saor
The Three Advices which the King with the Red Soles gave to his Son
Legends of the 'Good People'
The Fairy Child
The Changeling and his Bagpipes
The Tobinstown Sheeoge
The Belated Priest
The Palace in the Rath
The Breton Version of the Palace in the Rath
The Fairy Nurse
The Recovered Bride
Faction-fight among the Fairies
Jemmy Doyle in the Fairy Palace
The Fairy Cure
The Sea Fairies
The Black Cattle of Durzy Island
The Silkie Wife
The Pooka of Murroe
The Kildare Pooka
The Kildare Lurikeen
The Adventures of the 'Son of Bad Counsel'
Witchcaft, Socery, Ghosts and Fetches
The Long Spoon
The Prophet before his Time
The Bewitched Churn
The Ghosts and the Game of Football
The Cat of the Carman's Stage
Cauth Morisy looking for Service
Black Stairs on Fire
The Witches Excursion
The Crock found in the Rath
The Enchantment of Gearhoidh Iarla
Illan Eachtach and the Lianan
The Misfortunes of Barrett the Piper
The Woman in White
The Queen's County Ghost
The Ghost in Graigue
Droochan's Ghost
The Kiranelagh Spirit
The Doctor's Fetch
The Apparition in Old Ross
Ossianic and Early Legends
Fann Mac Cuil and the Scotch Giant
How Fann Mac Cuil and his Men were Bewitched
Qualifications and Duties of the Fianna Eirionn
The Battle of Ventry Harbour
The Fight of Castle Knoc
The Youth of Fion
Fion's First Marriage
How Fion selected a Wife
Pursuit of Diarmuid and Grainne
The Flight of the Sluggard
Beanriogain na Sciana Breaca
Conan's Delusions in Ceash
The Youth of Oisin
The Old Age of Oisin
Legend of Loch na Piasta
The King with the Horse's Ears
The Story of the Sculloge's Son from Muskerry
Fios Fath an Aaon Sceil
An Broan Suan Or
The Children of Lir
Lough Neagh
Killarney
Legend of the Lake of Inchiquin
How the Shannon acquired its Name
The Origin of the Lake of Tiis
The Building of Ardfert Cathredral
How Donaghedee got its Name
The Borrowed Lake
Kilstoheen in the Shannon
The Isle of the Living
Fionnutuin Mac Bochna
The Firbolgs and Danaans
Inis na Muic
The Bath of the White Cows
The Quest for the Tain-Bo-Cuilagne
The Progress of the Wicked Bard
Legends of the Celtic Saints
St Patrick
How St Patrick received the Staff of Jesus
The Fortune of Dichu
St Patrick's Contest with the Druids
The Baptism of Aongus
The Decision of the Chariot
Conversion of the Robber Chief, Macaldus
Baptism after Death
The Vision of St Brigid
Death and Burial of St Patrick
The Corpse-freighted Barque
St Brigid's Cloak
St Brigid and the Harps
Arran of the Saints and its Patrons
St Feancheas's Visit to Arran
St Brendain's Voyage
The Island of the Birds
The Sinner Saved
A Legend of St Mogue of Ferns
O' Carroll's Warning
How St Eloi was cured of Pride
St Lateerin of Cullin
Celtic Wonder Tales- Ella Young
The Earth Shapers
The Spear of Victory
A Good Action
How the Son of Gobhaun Saor Sold the Sheepskin
How the Son of Gobhaun Saor Shortened the Road
The Cow of Plenty
The Coming of Lugh
The Eric-Fine of Lugh
The Great Battle
Inisfail
The Golden Fly
The Children of Lir
The Luck-Child
Conary Mor
Beside the Fire- Douglas Hyde
Preface
Postscript (by Alfred Nutt)
Dedication
The Tailor and the Three Beasts
Bran
The King of Ireland's Son
The Alp-Luachra
Paudyeen O'Kelly and the Weasel
Leeam O'Rooney's Burial
Guleesh na Guss Dhu
The Well of D'Yerree-In-Dowan
The Court of Crinnawn
Neil O'Carree
Trunk-Without-Head
The Hags of the Long Teeth
William of the Tree
The Old Crow & The Young Crow
Riddles

The King of Ireland's Son- Padraic Colum
Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens
The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill
The Boyhood of Fionn
The Birth of Bran
Oisin's Mother
The Wooing of Becfola
The Little Brawl at Allen
The Carl of the Drab Coat
The Enchanted Cave of Cesh Corran
Mongan's Frenzy
Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland- Jeremiah Curtin
The Son of the King of Erin and the Giant of Loch Lein
The Three Daughters of King O'Hara
The Weaver's Don and the Giant of the White Hill
Fair, Brown and Trembling
The King of Erin and the Queen of the Lonesome Island
The Shee an Gannon and the Grugach Gaire
The Three Daughters of the King of the East and the Son of a King in Erin
The Fisherman's Son and the Grugach of Tricks
The Thirteenth Son of the King of Erin
Kil Arthur
Shaking-Head
Birth of Fin MacCumhail
Fin MacCumhail and the Fenians of Erin in the Castle of Fear Dubh
Fin MacCumhail and the Knight of the Full Axe
Gilla na Grakin and Fin MacCumhail
Fin MacCumhail The Seven Brothers and the King of France
Black, Brown and Gray
Fin MacCumhail and the Son of the King of Alba
Cuculin
Oisin in Tir Na N-Og
Notes
Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland- Lady Gregory
Preface
Sea Stories
Seers and Healers
The Evil Eye--The Touch--The Penalty
Away
Herbs, Charms and Wise Women
Astray and Treasure
Banshees and Warnings
In the Way
The Fighting of the Friends
The Unquiet Dead
Appearances
Butter
The Fool of the Forth
Forths and Sheoguey Places
Blacksmiths
Monsters and Sheoguey Beasts
Friars and Priest Cures
Notes (W.B. Yeats)
Witches and Wizards and Irish Folk-Lore (W.B. Yeats)
Swedenborg, Mediums and the Desolate Places (W.B. Yeats)
The Mabinogion- Lady Charlotte Guest
Prolegomena to the Study of Old Welsh Poetry- Edward Anwyl
The Gododdin Poems- William F. Skene
British Goblins- Wirt Sikes
The Welsh Fairy Book- W. Jenkyn Thomas
Preface
Notes on Welsh Pronunciation
The Lady of the Lake
Arthur in the Cave
The Curse of the Pantannas
The Drowning of the Bottom Hundred
Elidyr's Sojurn in Fairy Land
Rhys and Llywelyn
Lowri Dafydd Earns a Purse of Gold
The Llanfabon Changeling
Why the Red Dragon is the Emblem of Wales
Lyn Cwm Llwch
The Adventures of Three Farmers
Cadwaladr and his Goat
The Fairy Wife
Einion and the Lady of the Greenwood
The Green Isles of the Ocean
March's Ears
The Fairy Harp
Guto Bach and the Fairies
Ianto's Chase
The Stray Cow
Bala Lake
The Forbidden Fountain
Tudur ap Einion
The Fairy Walking Stick
Dick the Fiddler's Money
A Strange Otter
Fairy Ointment
Pergrin and the Mermaiden
The Cave of the Young Men of Snowdonia
Einion and the Fair Family
St Collen and the King of Fairy
Helig's Hollow
Owen Goes A-Wooing
The Fairy Reward
Why Deunant has the Front Door in the Back
Getting Rid of Fairies
The Mantle of Kings' Beards
Pedws Ffowk and St. Elian's Well
Magic Music
Sili go Dwt
Another Changeling
A Fairy Borrowing
Treasure Seeking
The Richest Man
St. Beuno and the Curlew
The Cat Witches
The Swallowed Court
What Marged Rolant Saw
Ned Puw's Farewell
Pennard Castle
The Man with the Green Weeds
Goronwy Tudor and the Witches of Llanddons
Robin's Return
The Harper's Gratuity
Six and Four are Ten
Envy Burns Itself
The Bride from the Red Lake
A Fairy Dog
Grace's Well
The Fairy Password
St. Winifred's Well
The Ancients of the World
Nansi Llwyd and the Dog of Darkness
An Adventure in the Big Bog
The Pwca of the Trwyn
John Gethin and the Candle
Fetching a Halter
Dai Sion's Homecoming
Melangell's Lambs
Syfaddon Lake
The Power of St Tegla's Well
The Men of Ardudwy
The Parti-coloured Cow
Striking a Corpse Candle
Hu Gadarn
The Devil's Bridge
The Martyred Hound
Twm of the Fair Lies
Black Robin
Llyn Llech Owen
A Ghostly Rehersal
A Phantom's Funeral
Why the Robin's Breast is Red
The Science of Fairy Tales - Edwin Sidney Hartland
Fairies- Gertrude M. Faulding
Celtic Fairy Tales- Joseph Jacobs
Connla and the Fairy Maiden
Guleesh
The Field of Boliauns
The Horned Women
Conall Yellowclaw
Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary
The Shepherd of Myddvai
The Sprightly Tailor
The Story of Deirdre
Munachar and Manachar
Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree
King O'Toole and his Goose
The Wooing of Olwen
Jack and his Comrades
The Shee An Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire
The Story-Teller at Fault
The Sea-Maiden
A Legend of Knockmany
Fair, Brown and Trembling
Jack and his Master
Beth Gellert
The Tale of Ivan
Andrew Coffey
The Battle of the Birds
Brewery of Eggshells
The Lad with the Goat-Skin
Notes and References
Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race- Thomas Rolleston
On the Study of Celtic Literature- Matthew Arnold

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