| Children's Book of Irish Folktales Contributor(s): Danaher, Kevin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1781176442 ISBN-13: 9781781176443 Publisher: Mercier Press OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore - Country & Ethnic - General - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: 398.210 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" (0.35 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Holiday - St. Patrick's Day |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The special magic of the Irish imagination shines forth in these fourteen authentic folktales. These tales are filled with the mystery and adventure of a land of lonely country roads and isolated farms, humble cottages and lordly castles, rolling fields and tractless bogs. They tell of ghosts and giants, of strange happenings and wondrous deeds, of fairies and witches and of fools and kings. Above all in these stories there is a sense of the full wonder of a world where the marvellous and the unexpected can always happen, and nothing is ever quite as it seems. |
Contributor Bio(s): Danaher, Kevin: - Kevin Danaher was born in Athea County Limerick in 1915 and educated at University College Dublin and the universities of Berlin and Leipzig. After service as a captain in the Irish army during the Emergency, he became a full-time ethnologist with the Irish Folklore Commission (later the Department of Irish Folklore in University College Dublin). He was as fine a writer as he was a folklorist and his many works include The Year in Ireland (1972) and Irish Country Households (1975, reissued 1999). His research provided the basis for the Folk Park at Bunratty, county Limerick. |