Description |
x, 234 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plate : portrait ; 20 cm |
Contents |
This book.-A teller of tales.-Belief and unbelief.-Mortal help.-A visionary.-Village ghosts.-ʻDust hath closed Helen's eye.'-A knight of the sheep.-An enduring heart.-The sorcerers.-The devil.-Happy and unhappy theologians.-The last gleeman.-Regina, regina pigmeorum, veni.-ʻAnd fair, fierce women.'-Enchanted woods.-Miraculous creatures.-Aristotle of the books.-The swine of the gods.-A voice.-Kidnappers.-The untiring ones.-Earth, fire and water.-The old town.-The man and his boots.-A coward.-The three O'Byrnes and the evil faeries.-Drumcliff and Rosses.-The thick skull of the fortunate.-The religion of a sailor.-Concerning the nearness together of heaven, earth, and purgatory.-The eaters of precious stones.-Our Lady of the hills.-The golden age.-A remonstrance with Scotsmen for having soured the disposition of their ghosts and faeries.-War.-The queen and the fool.-The friends of the people of faery.-Dreams that have no moral.-By the roadside.-Into the twilight |
Notes |
"Printed 1893; reprinted with additions 1902." |
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Also issued online |
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Ex libris John J. Quinn, 1903 |
Subject |
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Childhood and youth.
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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Homes and haunts -- Ireland -- Sligo (County)
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Folklore -- Ireland.
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Tales -- Ireland.
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Poets, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Poets, Irish -- Homes and haunts -- Ireland -- Sligo (County)
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Mythology, Celtic -- Ireland -- Sligo (County)
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Folklore -- Ireland -- Sligo (County)
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Tales -- Ireland -- Sligo (County)
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SUBJECT |
Ireland -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068053
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Sligo (Ireland : County) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82129782 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
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Genre/Form |
Biography.
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LC no. |
03023057 |
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