Author: Daniel Deeney
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Category : Celts
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Peasant Lore from Gaelic Ireland
Author: Daniel Deeney
Publisher:
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Category : Celts
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Publisher:
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Category : Celts
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth
Author: William Yeats
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014196099X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
This collection brings together all of W. B. Yeats’s published prose writings on Irish folklore, legend and myth, with pieces on subjects including ghosts, kidnappers, fairies, ancient tribes, precious stones and Gaelic love songs. Through his researches on Irish folklore, Yeats attempted to create a movement in literature that was enriched by and rooted in a vital native tradition. In this volume Yeats’s essays, introductions and sketches are presented chronologically, giving a clear picture of how his analysis developed, increasing in its depth and complexity in his quest to create an Ireland of the imagination.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014196099X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
This collection brings together all of W. B. Yeats’s published prose writings on Irish folklore, legend and myth, with pieces on subjects including ghosts, kidnappers, fairies, ancient tribes, precious stones and Gaelic love songs. Through his researches on Irish folklore, Yeats attempted to create a movement in literature that was enriched by and rooted in a vital native tradition. In this volume Yeats’s essays, introductions and sketches are presented chronologically, giving a clear picture of how his analysis developed, increasing in its depth and complexity in his quest to create an Ireland of the imagination.
Irish Literature
Author: Justin McCarthy
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Category : Irish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 974
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Publisher:
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Category : Irish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 974
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Irish Literature
Author:
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Category : Irish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Category : Irish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Irish Folk Tales
Author: Henry Glassie
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307828247
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Here are 125 magnificent folktales collected from anthologies and journals published from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with tales of the ancient times and continuing through the arrival of the saints in Ireland in the fifth century, the periods of war and family, the Literary Revival championed by William Butler Yeats, and the contemporary era, these robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic stories of kings, ghosts, fairies, treasures, enchanted nature, and witchcraft are set in cities, villages, fields, and forests from the wild western coast to the modern streets of Dublin and Belfast. Edited by Henry Glassie With black-and-white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307828247
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Here are 125 magnificent folktales collected from anthologies and journals published from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with tales of the ancient times and continuing through the arrival of the saints in Ireland in the fifth century, the periods of war and family, the Literary Revival championed by William Butler Yeats, and the contemporary era, these robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic stories of kings, ghosts, fairies, treasures, enchanted nature, and witchcraft are set in cities, villages, fields, and forests from the wild western coast to the modern streets of Dublin and Belfast. Edited by Henry Glassie With black-and-white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Yeats, Folklore and Occultism
Author: Frank Kinahan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000639355
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This lively introduction to the poems of W. B. Yeats, first published in 1988, provides a series of intriguing new readings of his work in relation to his profound involvement with occultism and folklore. During Yeats’s formative years as an artist, two compelling movements were emerging: the revivals of interest in Irish folklore and in the mag
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000639355
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This lively introduction to the poems of W. B. Yeats, first published in 1988, provides a series of intriguing new readings of his work in relation to his profound involvement with occultism and folklore. During Yeats’s formative years as an artist, two compelling movements were emerging: the revivals of interest in Irish folklore and in the mag
Class A, Theology. B, Mythology and folklore. C, Philosophy. 1910
Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Publisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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W.B. Yeats and Irish Folklore
Author: Mary Helen Thuente
Publisher: Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Publisher: Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Fictions of the Irish Literary Revival
Author: John Wilson Foster
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815623748
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This is a critical survey of the fiction and non-fiction written in Ireland during the key years between 1880 and 1920, or what has become known as the Irish Literary Renaissance. The book considers both the prose and the social and cultural forces working through it.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815623748
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This is a critical survey of the fiction and non-fiction written in Ireland during the key years between 1880 and 1920, or what has become known as the Irish Literary Renaissance. The book considers both the prose and the social and cultural forces working through it.
The Handbook of Folklore
Author: Charlotte Sophia Burne
Publisher:
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Category : Folk-lore
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Publisher:
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Category : Folk-lore
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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