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An Irish storyteller revisits the little-known legend of the Mermaid Saint in a haunting, beautifully illustrated tale of kindness, music, and longing. Long ago, on the eastern coast of Ireland, a monk from the Abbey of Bangor was collecting driftwood along the wave-tossed shore when he found a boy washed up amid a circle of seals. At first, the boy, wrapped in a shawl of woven seagrass, could barely move or speak. But when he regained his strength, he recalled being brought ashore by a lady with long golden hair who sang him to safety and gave him a silver ring. The monks knew the legend of a mermaid who had wandered the coast for three hundred years. Could it possibly have been her? Inspired by a story told in medieval chronicles of Irish history about a wondrous happening in the year 558, debut author Marianne McShane weaves a captivating tale, while Jordi Solano captures the legend's spare but welcoming abbey on the rocky shore -- a setting that makes you believe that if you listen hard enough, you too can hear the mermaid's song.

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Though it may only be a small emerald isle, Ireland's heritage is very large indeed. In A Pot O' Gold, noted writer Kathleen Krull and beloved illustrator David McPhail bring this legacy to life. Created for families, this anthology compiles classic and rare examples of Irish culture including stories, poems, songs, recipes, and even a little blarney. From legends of leprechauns and fairies to the classic poetry of Yeats and Joyce, this treasury is a perfect way for anyone to share the wonders of Ireland.

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Heaney delves into the roots of Irish lore for her collection of eight tales. Conflict, murder, and magic abound as kings and chieftains fight one another over beautiful women or to win the honor. The author, the wife of Seamus Heaney, divides the volume into the three accepted cycles of early Irish literature (the mythological, Ulster, and Finn cycles), providing a brief explanation of the period as well as tales representative of each. Readers meet a variety of Ireland's ancient heroes and villains as they conquer lands and such peoples as the Tuatha De Danaan, who later became known as the Faery or Little Folk that live under the earth in the Land of Youth. Heaney includes all the necessary elements.  A drama, intrigue, ambition, and wizardry but something is amiss when she strings them together. 

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Susan Cooper has retold the folktale of the Selkie who is forced to live among mortals. In Cooper's version, Donallan falls in love with one of three beautiful naked selkie-maidens that he sees sitting on the rocks. Stealing her sealskin so that she cannot return to the sea, he marries her. Although she bears his five children, whom she loves deeply, she longs for her home and her family in the sea. At last, she learns where her skin is hidden and, putting it on, dives joyously into the waves. But every year, Donallan and his children go down to the sea and when they return, there is "a look on their faces like sunlight." Cooper retells this ancient folktale from the coastal regions of Ireland and Scotland in a simple, direct storybook style, which, while lacking some of the exquisite beauty and flowing language of an Eva LaGalliene, still captures enough of the essence to appeal to young readers.

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Here are the Irish – the bold, witty, imaginative, sentimental, fighting Irish. Here is their humor, their guff, and their blarney, their sharp satiric wit, and their incomparable good talk.

Here are their heroes, from Cuchullain, Deirdre, Maeve, Concobar, Cormac, Finn, Grania, and Brian Boru to Tyrone, Rid Hugh, Hugh O’Neill, Robert Emmet, O’Connell, Parnell, and Collins, Here’s Stain Patrick and Father Prout, Blind Raftery, Mr. Dooley, John L. Sullivan, and John McCormack. Here are the lakes, the harp, and the shamrock, the charms, oaths, curses, and blessings – the ways and traditions of the Irish people. Here is Ireland – at work and at play, singing, dancing, fighting – as the Irish themselves tell about it, by the firesides, in the taverns, and at the fairs, at home and across the seas. Irish folklore is probably the richest in the world, for the Irish are great storytellers, and since the days of the bards, the folk singer and the storyteller have always had a high place. 

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Brigid's Cloak retells an ancient tale about one of Ireland's most beloved saints. On the day she is born Brigid receives a brilliant blue cloak from a mysterious Druid. Years later, the young girl still wears the now tattered but beloved cloak while she tends her sheep. Is it her imagination that suddenly takes her to an unfamiliar land? Or is it something far greater that leads Brigid to a crowded inn in a town called Bethlehem?

Bryce Milligan's eloquently told story about Brigid is a moving tale of compassion and wonder. Beautifully illustrated by Helen Cann, Brigid's Cloak sparkles with the timelessness of the legend and the transcending power of faith.

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Jamie O'Rourke is the laziest man in all of Ireland, far too lazy to help his wife on their farm. Then, after a chance encounter with a leprechaun, Jamie finds himself growing the biggest potato in the world. But what will happen when the potato grows too large for Jamie and the villagers to handle?

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Leavy has selected 10 stories from the rich and prolific melange of Irish folklore and rewritten them in a simple yet literary style that still reflects the Irish charm and mystique. These are stories of wonder, some dating back as far as 2000 years, with a host of majestic heroes, fairies, giants, and leprechauns living out comedic and tragic themes of honesty and deceit, good vs. evil, love and happiness, bravery and strength. In "The Children of Lir," the King's second marriage to wicked, jealous Aoife results in the transformation of his beloved children into swans. In "The Giant's Causeway," Fionn's wife Blaithin conquers and cleverly outsmarts the giant Fathach Mor in a man's world. A couple of stories fall a bit flat at the end. However, for the most part, the pathos and humor of each story are well expressed. Leavy has eliminated some of the violence found in the originals and kept to the basic premise and concept. Each selection is carefully documented. 

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This book offers an innovative revaluation of Oscar Wilde's two collections of fairy tales, The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) and A House of Pomegranates (1891). Providing a comprehensive account of Wilde's familiarity with Irish folklore, this study challenges the prevailing consensus that the stories draw heavily on such material. By emphasizing Wilde's own stated views on the subject - and so contesting the assumption that he simply shared the well-documented interests of his parents, Sir William Wilde and Lady Jane Wilde ('Speranza') - the book relocates the stories within a variety of literary, cultural, and narrative traditions, both Irish and European. Acknowledging Wilde's often ambivalent and ambiguous statements about his Irish national identity, Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales: Origins and Contexts offers a more nuanced understanding of the importance of Ireland to Wilde's art. The detailed readings of the fairy tales show that, despite the stories' continuing appeal to children, Wilde intended his fairy tales for a predominantly adult audience.

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The Langs' Fairy Books are a series of 25 collections of true and fictional stories for children published between 1889 and 1913 by Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne. The best-known books of the series are the 12 collections of fairy tales also known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors. In all, the volumes feature 798 stories, besides the 153 poems in The Blue Poetry Book. Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, and literary critic. He initially edited the series and wrote prefaces for its entire run, while his wife, the translator and author Leonora Blanche Alleyne (1851 - 10 July 1933), known to friends and family as Nora, assumed editorial control of the series in the 1890s.

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n this retelling of an Irish folktale, a brave young woman battles a sea serpent and rescues her true love from a giant. Margaret has a brave heart. Margaret has a brave heart. She dreams of adventure and longs to travel to distant lands, so when a tall ship appears in the harbor, headed north to the Kingdoms of the Cold, Margaret won't be left behind. But adventures are perilous things. Soon Margaret must face a ferocious sea serpent and even worse dangers. And she must discover the truth about an old woman with strange powers and mysterious plans, or she'll never find a way to bring herself and her true love safely home.

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Originally published as two separate volumes in the 1800s, this premier collection of Irish stories was edited and compiled by W. B. Yeats is the perfect gift for any lover of Irish literature and folklore. The lyrical prose and rich cultural heritage of each tale will captivate and enchant readers of all ages and keep them entertained for hours on end.

This volume contains more than seventy classic Irish stories, including timeless characters and mythology passed down for generations such as:

• The Trooping Fairies

• Changelings

• Tir-Na-n-óg

• The Leprechaun

• The Kildare Pooka

• How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee

• And many more!