Irish Folktales by Glassie, Henry

Irish Folktales (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679774129)

Vendor: Henry Glassie
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Irish Folktales by Glassie, Henry

Irish Folktales

$22.00
Irish Folktales by Glassie, Henry

Irish Folktales

$22.00
Format: Paperback
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Here are 125 magnificent folktales collected from anthologies and journals published from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with tales of the ancient times and continuing through the arrival of the saints in Ireland in the fifth century, the periods of war and family, the Literary Revival championed by William Butler Yeats, and the contemporary era, these robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic stories of kings, ghosts, fairies, treasures, enchanted nature, and witchcraft are set in cities, villages, fields, and forests from the wild western coast to the modern streets of Dublin and Belfast.

Edited by Henry Glassie
With black-and-white illustrations throughout
Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

Author: Henry Glassie
ISBN-10: 0679774122
ISBN-13: 9780679774129
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Language: English
Published: 02/11/1997
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.14w x 0.98d
By Henry Glassie
By Henry Glassie
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HENRY GLASSIE is a folklorist and emeritus College Professor of Folklore at Indiana University. He has written nearly twenty books on folklore of the areas of Ireland, Turkey, Bangladesh, and the United States, three of which have been named by The New York Times as "Notable Books of the Year."

Glassie served as the state folklorist for Pennsylvania, received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was a president of the American Folklore Society and the Vernacular Architecture Forum. He was nominated to the National Council on the Humanities by President Bill Clinton on which he served in 2001.

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