Irish Folk-Tales Collected by Jeremiah Curtin (1835-1906) Edited by Seamus O Duilearga (PT144)

Published 1943: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated frontispiece

Original green cloth with gilt titles on the spine. 166 very clean and bright pages, the letter B is written on the endpapers. Boards are rubbed and faded with time and bumped on the corners consistent with age but remain intact. Scarce! (PT144)

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A collection of sixteen Irish folk tales taken from Irish-American anthropologist and oral tradition collector Jeremiah Curtin's column in the New York newspaper The Sun between 1892 and 1893. Contents: The Son of the King of Erin and the Queen of the Moving Wheel; The Bird of the Golden Land; The King?s Son in Erin and the King of Green Island; The Fisherman of Kinsale and the Hag of the Sea; The Tinker of Ballingarry and his Three Wishes; Baranoir, son of a King in Erin, and the Daughter of King under the Wave; The Share-smith and the Stranger; Gold Apple, son of the King of Erin; The Widow?s Son, the Devil, and the Fool; The Three Sons of the King of Antua; Sgiathán Dearg, and the daughter of the King of the Western World; Fáinne óir, daughter of the King of Erin, and the son of the King of Three Seas; The High King of Lochlann, and the Fenians of Erin; Finn mac Cumhaill and Conan Maol in the House at the Rock; Sál Fhada, the King?s son, and Finn mac Cumhaill; Finn mac Cumhaill and Iolann Iolchrothach, son of the King of Spain. Google Books.