Project Gutenberg 2006-07-13 Public domain in the USA. 99 Frost, William Henry 1863 1902 Burleigh, Sydney Richmond 1853 1931 Burleigh, S. R. (Sydney Richmond) Fairies and Folk of Ireland Reading ease score: 87.3 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by David Garcia, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Kentuckiana Digital Library) "Fairies and Folk of Ireland" by William Henry Frost is a collection of Irish folk tales and legends written in the late 19th century. The book weaves together a main narrative featuring characters such as the O'Brien family, alongside various traditional stories embodying the rich oral culture of Ireland, particularly its mythology concerning fairies and spirits. The themes explored involve hardship, hope, and the enduring presence of folklore in the lives of the Irish people. At the start of the book, we meet the O'Brien family—a young couple and the elderly mother—who are struggling with poverty and the weight of their circumstances in a humble Irish cabin. As they converse about the difficulties of their lives, the grandmother shares tales of Ireland's past glory, particularly that of the legendary King O'Donoghue, who was said to bring good luck. Their discussions reveal their despair over dire times but are interspersed with tales that evoke a hope for a better future tied to the return of historical figures from Irish legend, serving as a bridge between their current hardships and a dream of prosperous times. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Folklore -- Ireland PZ Text Folklore Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature 434522 434480 2024-10-08T10:01:38.914899 2023-09-08T11:14:16.226047 text/html text/html 437849 2006-07-13T15:44:06 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 1165828 2006-07-13T15:44:10 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1365071 2024-10-08T10:01:48.576783 application/epub+zip 1365470 2024-10-08T10:01:42.681824 application/epub+zip 224910 2024-10-08T10:01:41.035852 application/epub+zip 1522953 2024-10-08T10:01:52.990751 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1482718 2024-10-08T10:01:47.511811 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 325780 2022-09-09T06:03:59.963018 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 396972 396751 2024-10-08T10:01:37.775876 2023-09-08T11:14:15.320058 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 396819 2006-07-13T15:44:06 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 137524 2006-07-13T15:44:10 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 396810 2006-07-13T15:44:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 137502 2006-07-13T15:44:10 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21708 2024-10-08T10:01:53.131749 application/rdf+xml 10028 2024-10-08T10:01:41.601826 image/jpeg 2786 2024-10-08T10:01:41.321816 image/jpeg 1243789 2024-10-08T10:01:38.999837 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog