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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

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

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Introduction (Juliet Brown)
The Trooping Fairies - The Fairies (Juliet Brown)
Frank Martin and The Fairies (Juliet Brown)
The Priest's Supper - The Fairy Well of Lagnanay (Juliet Brown)
Teig O'Kane and the Corpse (Juliet Brown)
Paddy Corcoran's Wife - Cusheen Loo the White Trout: A Legend of Cong (Juliet Brown)
The Fairy Thorn - The Legend of Knockgrafton - A Donegal Fairy (Juliet Brown)
Changelings The Brewery of Egg-shells - The Fairy Nurse (Juliet Brown)
Jamie Freel and the Young Lady - The Stolen Child (Juliet Brown)
The Merrow The Soul Cages (Juliet Brown)
Flory Cantillon's Funeral (Juliet Brown)
The Solitary Fairies -The Lepracaun, or, Fairy Shoemaker (Diana Schmidt)
Master and Man - Far Darrig in Donegal (Esther C)
The Piper and the Puca - Daniel O'Rourke (Amelia Chesley)
The Kildare Pooka - How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee (Douglas Taylor)
A Lamantation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald - The Banshee of the MacCarthys (Douglas Taylor)
Ghosts - A Dream (Kristin G.)
Grace Conner (Aubrey Anne)
A Legend of Tyrone (Aubrey Anne)
The Black Lamb - Song of the Ghost (Kristin G.)
The Radiant Boy - The Fate of Frank M'Kenna (Esther C)
Witches, Fairy Doctors Bewitched (Alexandra Helms)
Bewitched Butter (Donegal) - A Queen's County Witch (Kristin G.)
The Witch Hare - Bewitched Butter (Queen's County) (Esther C)
The Horned Women - The Witches Excursion (Kristin G.)
The Confessions of Tom Bourke (Esther C)
The Pudding Bewitched (Esther C)
Tyeer-Na-N-Oge The Legend of O'Donoghue (Jane Muir)
Rent-Day - Loughleagh (Lake of Healing) (NoelBadrian)
Hy-Brasail - The Isle of the Blest - The Phantom Isle (Jessi McDaniel)
Saints, Priests The Priest's Soul - The Priest of Coloony (Lucy Kempton)
The Story of the Little Bird - Conversion King Laoghaire's Daughters (Kristin G.)
King O'Toole and His Goose (Aiken)
The Devil The Demon Cat - The Long Spoon - The Countess Kathleen (Michele Eaton)
The Three Wishes Part 1 (Michele Eaton)
The Three Wishes Part 2 (Michele Eaton)
Giants - The Giant's Stairs (Kyle B Jones)
A Legend of Knockmany (Kyle B Jones)
Kings, Queens, Princesses, Earls, Robbers - The Twelve Wild Geese (Brian Naylor)
The Lazy Beauty and Her Aunts (NoelBadrian)
The Haughty Princess - The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla (Kyle B Jones)
Munachar and Manachar - Donald and his Neighbours (Deon Gines)
The Jackdaw (Jessi McDaniel)
The Story of Conn-eda (clarinetcarrot)
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