Description |
160 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents |
A Teller of Tales -- Belief and Unbelief -- Mortal Help -- A Visionary -- Village Ghosts -- "Dust 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 -- "And 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 |
Analysis |
Folklore Ireland Sligo (County) |
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Ireland Social life and customs 19th century |
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Mythology, Celtic Ireland Sligo (County) |
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Poets, Irish Biography 19th century |
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Poets, Irish Homes and haunts Ireland Sligo (County) |
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Sligo (Ireland : County) Social life and customs |
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Tales Ireland Sligo (County) |
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Yeats, W.B. Childhood and youth |
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Yeats, W.B. Homes and haunts Ireland Sligo (County) |
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Sligo (County) folklore Texts |
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 -- Sligo (County)
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Folklore -- Ireland.
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Mythology, Celtic -- Ireland -- Sligo (County)
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Poets, Irish -- Homes and haunts -- Ireland -- Sligo (County)
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Poets, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Tales -- Ireland -- Sligo (County)
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Tales -- Ireland.
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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 |
Autobiographies.
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Author |
Townsend, Jean, 1908-
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LC no. |
81166702 |
ISBN |
0861400690 |
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0861400704 (paperback) |
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