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  • Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland

    The Sidhe cannot make themselves visible to all. They are shape-changers; they can grow small or grow large, they can take what shape they choose; they appear as men or women wearing clothes of many colours, of today or of some old forgotten fashion, or they are seen as bird or beast, or as a barrel or a flock of wool. They go by us in a cloud of dust; they are as many as the blades of grass. They ... Read more

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  • Gods and Fighting Men

    A few months ago l was on the bare Hill of Allen, 'wide Almhuin of Leinster', where Finn and the Fianna lived, according to the stories, although there are no earthen mounds there like those that mark the sites of old buildings on so many hills. A hot sun beat down upon flowering gorse and flowerless heather; and on every side except the east, where there were green trees and distant hills, one ... Read more

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  • Irish Myths and Legends Vol 2

    Cuchulain and the Red Branch of Ulster

    Lady Augusta Gregory's collection and translation of Irish folk legends brings, as Yeats observed, 'Ireland's gift of imagination to the world'.Following on from the bestselling Irish Myths and Legends: Gods and Fighting Men, this second volume, originally titled Cuchulain of Muirthemne, tells of the brave exploits of Ireland's answer to Achilles, the fearless Cuchulain and the Red Branch of ... Read more

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  • Irish Myths and Legends

    Gods and Fighting Men

    Lady Augusta Gregory's Irish Myths and Legends, or Gods and Fighting Men as it was first titled in 1904, is an essential collection of Irish myths, legends and folk tales gathered by Gregory from Irish oral story tellers at the close of the nineteenth century.These epic tales are divided into two parts: the first charts the coming of the mythic Tuatha De Danaan to Ireland, the lives of Manannan ... Read more

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  • Cuchulain of Muirthemne (Illustrated Edition)

    Lady Augusta Gregory (15 March 1852 22 May 1932), was an Irish dramatist and folklorist. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies. Lady Gregory produced a number of books of retellings of stories taken from Irish mythology. Born into a class that was identified closely with ... Read more

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  • A Book of Saints and Wonders

    There was a poor man, and a poor woman, living in an ancient place in Ireland, a sort of a wilderness. The man used to be wishing for a son that would be a help to him with the work, but the woman used to say nothing, because she was good. They had a baby at last, but it was a girl, and the man was sorry and he said "We will always be poor now." But the woman said, for it was showed to her at that ... Read more

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    Irish Authoress, The - A Short Story Collection

    Influential female authors from the magical land of Ireland

    Unabridged

    6 hours 7 min

    The history of Ireland is mired in centuries of oppressive rule, struggles and poverty. Against this its landscape and people are a bright beacon of nature and humanity showing the very best of themselves.Ireland’s long rich history of literature is readily lauded all over the world. In its ranks of its women authors are the gloried and the famed but also many who shone but for a moment and others ... Read more

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    Neglected Authors, The - Women - Volume 1

    Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

    Unabridged

    10 hours 44 min

    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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  • Gods And Fighting Men : The Story Of The Tuatha De Danaan And Of The Fianna Of Ireland

    Gods And Fighting Men : The Story Of The Tuatha De Danaan And Of The Fianna Of Irelandby Lady Augusta Gregory"Gods and Fighting Men" is a fascinating collection of Irish Mythology from the earliest legends. It affects all of Ireland and the stories are fairly widespread throughout the Gaelic world. Lady Gregory wrote these translations with a view to retain the native Irish sense of story-telling; ... Read more

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  • Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography

    Fourteen or fifteen years ago I still wrote from time to time in a diary I used to keep till the sand in the hour-glass on my table began to run so fast that I had to lay by the book as well as embroidery, and archæology, and drying lavender, and visits to the houses of friends. I was in London in the beginning of 1898, and I find written, “Yeats and Sir Alfred Lyall to tea, Yeats stayed on. He is ... Read more

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  • Gods and Fighting Men

    The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland

    Regarded by many as the quintessential collection of Irish mythology, Lady Augusta Gregory's Gods and Fighting Men brings together a vast compendium of tales and fables dating back to the earliest days of civilization in what is now known as Ireland. A folklorist with a genuine flair for storytelling, Gregory's renderings of the tales will engage and enthrall readers. ... Read more

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  • The Kiltartan Poetry Book

    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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