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A Treasury of Irish myth, legend, and folklore / compiled and edited by Claire Booss.

Booss, C. (Author). Booss, Claire. (Added Author).

Summary:

Presents William Butler Yeats's nineteenth-century collection of traditional Irish folklore, "Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry," and Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory's "Cuchulain of Muirthemne," a 1902 retelling of the epic myth of Ireland's national hero.

Record details

ISBN: 051748904X
ISBN: 9780517489048
Physical Description: xxvi, 704 pages, 35 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : Avenel Books : 1986.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Fairy and folk tales of the Irish peasantry / edited and selected by William Butler Yeats -- Cuchulain of Muirthemne / arranged and put into English by Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory.