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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS FAIRY & FOLK TALES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY FAIRY & FOLK TALES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY & FOLK TALES FAIRY This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats col- lected them from around the Western part of Ireland and translated them near the end of the 1800s. | 00 · Introduction | 01 · THE TROOPING FAIRIES | The Fairies | 02 · Frank Martin and The W. B. YEATS W. Fairies | 03 · The Priest’s Supper & The Fairy Well of Lagnanay | 04 · Teig O’Kane and the Corpse | 05 · Paddy Corcoran’s Wife & Cusheen Loo the White Trout: A Legend of Cong | 06 · The Fairy Thorn & The Legend of Knockgrafton & A Donegal Fairy | 07 · CHANGELINGS | The Brewery of Egg-shells & The Fairy Nurse | 08 · Jamie Freel and the Young Lady & The Stolen Child | 09 · THE MERROW | The Soul Cages | 10 · Flory Cantillon’s Funeral | 11 · THE SOLITARY FAIRIES | The Lepracaun; or, Fairy Shoemaker | 12 · Master and Man & Far Darrig in Donegal | 13 · The Piper and the Puca & Daniel O’Rourke | 14 · The Kildare Pooka & How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee | 15 · A Lamanta- tion for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald & The Banshee of the MacCarthys | 16 · GHOSTS | A Dream | 17 · Grace Conner | 18 · A Legend of Tyrone | 19 · The Black Lamb & Song of the Ghost | 20 · The Radiant Boy & The Fate of Frank M’Kenna | 21 · WITCHES, FAIRY DOCTORS | 22 · Bewitched Butter (Donegal) & A Queen’s County Witch | 23 · The Witch Hare & Bewitched Butter (Queen’s County) | 24 · The Horned Women & The Witches Excursion | 25 · The Confessions of Tom Bourke | 26 · The Pudding Bewitched | 27 · TYEER-NA-N-OGE | The Legend of O’Donoghue | 28 · Rent-Day & Loughleagh (Lake of Healing) | 29 · Hy-Brasail & The Isle of the Blest & The Phantom Isle | 30 · SAINTS, PRIESTS | The Priest’s Soul & The Priest of Coloony | 31 · The Story of the Little Bird & Conversion King Laoghaire’s Daughters | 32 · King O’Toole and His Goose | 33 · THE DEVIL | The Demon Cat & The Long Spoon & The Countess Kathleen | 34/35 · The Three Wishes | 36 · GIANTS | The Giant’s Stairs | 37 · A Legend of Knockmany | 38 · KINGS, QUEENS, PRINCESSES, EARLS, ROBBERS | The Twelve Wild Geese | 39 · The Lazy Beauty and Her Aunts | 40 · The Haughty Princess & The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla | 41 · Munachar and Manachar & Donald and his Neighbours | 42 · The Jackdaw | 43 · The Story of Conn-eda Read by Juliet Brown, Diana Schmidt, Esther C, Amelia Chesley, Douglas Taylor, Kristin Gjerløw, Aubrey Anne, Alexandra Helms, Jane B. YEATS W. Muir, NoelBadrian, Jessi McDaniel, Lucy Kempton, Aiken, Michele Eaton, Kyle B Jones, Brian Naylor, deongines, clarinetcarrot. | | 11:20:48 This recording is in the public domain and may be reproduced, distributed, or modified without per- mission. For more information or to volunteer, visit librivox.org | Cover picture “Château Ultime” FAIRY & FOLK TALES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY & FOLK TALES FAIRY by William Thomas Horton (1898) | Copyright expired in U.S., Canada, EU. and all countries with author’s life +70 yrs laws. This design by carthinius is in the public domain..