Irish Folk-Tales Collected by Jeremiah Curtin

1944, edited with notes by folklorist Séamus Ó Duilearga

Author

Seamus O Duilearga, editor

Publisher

Folklore of Ireland Society / Talbot Press, Dublin and Cork, 1944

Irish Folk-Tales Collected by Jeremiah Curtin

Printing Details

First edition, second printing. Hardback in green cloth, faint gilt titling to spine. 21.5 × 14cm, xvi + 166pp

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.

Condition

A good reading copy. There is rubbing and bumping to the green boards and light scattered foxing. The minor edgewear to the pages but essentially remaining in strong readable condition.

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