AUTHORITIES on IRISH FOLKLORE
by Unknown · from Irish Fairy Tales
Adapted Version
Do you like stories? I love stories! Old stories are the best. They are very fun. They make us happy.
Many people wrote down stories. They found old tales. Lady Wilde wrote stories. She loved old tales. She heard them from friends. She put them in books. Her books are good. She wrote them carefully. We can still read them.
Other friends wrote stories too. They listened to grandmas. They listened to grandpas. These people wrote stories. They wrote many stories. Grandmas told old tales. Grandpas told funny tales.
Small, old books had stories. They had fairy tales. These books were fun. They were for everyone. They had magic. They had brave heroes.
More people found stories. They loved old tales. They wrote them down. They put them in books. They wanted to save them. They wanted to share them.
Stories were in special papers. People liked to share them. They put them there. Many people read them. They liked the stories. These papers were fun. They came out often.
Grandmas told stories. Grandpas told stories. They told them to children. The children listened. Children loved to hear them. They sat very still.
People wrote stories. They put them in books. They put them in papers. Everyone could read them. This was good. Stories were everywhere. For all to enjoy.
Many places had stories. Old books had stories. New books had stories. They were all good. Libraries had many. Homes had many too.
I also wrote stories. I heard them from people. In a special place. I listened carefully. I wrote them down.
I looked at my old story book. I found more good stories to share. It was full of tales. New ones and old ones.
Some books are very special. Lady Wilde wrote one. Douglas Hyde wrote one. They are good to read. These books are treasures. They hold old magic.
And guess what? There are special books just for children! They have fun fairy tales. You can find them in your library! These books are colorful. They have big pictures.
So many stories to find! Go to your library. Find a new one today! Start your own story journey. It will be fun.
Original Story
AUTHORITIES ON IRISH FOLKLORE
roker's Legends of the South of Ireland; Lady Wilde's Ancient Legends of Ireland, and Ancient Charms; Sir William Wilde's Irish Popular Superstitions; McAnally's Irish Wonders; Irish Folklore, by Lageniensis (Father O'Hanlan); Curtins's Myths and Folklore of Ireland; Douglas Hyde's Beside the Fire and his Leabhar Sgeulaigheachta; Patrick Kennedy's Legendary Fictions of the Irish Peasantry, his Banks of the Boro, his Evenings on the Duffrey, and his Legends of Mount Leinster; the chap-books, Royal Fairy Tales, and Tales of the Fairies. There is also much folklore in Carleton's Traits and Stories; in Lover's Legends and Stories of the Irish Peasantry; in Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall's Ireland; in Lady Chatterton's Rambles in the South of Ireland; in Gerald Griffen's Tales of a Jury Room in particular, and in his other books in general. It would repay the trouble if some Irish magazine would select from his works the stray legends and scraps of fairy belief. There is much in the Collegians. There is also folklore in the chap-book Hibernian Tales, and a Banshee story or two will be found in Miss Lefanu's Memoirs of my Grandmother, and in Barrington's Recollections. There are also stories in Donovan's introduction to the Four Masters. The best articles are those in the Dublin and London Magazine ("The Fairy Greyhound" is from this collection) for 1827 and 1829, about a dozen in all, and David Fitzgerald's various contributions to the Review Celtique in our own day, and Miss M'Clintock's articles in the Dublin University Magazine for 1878. There are good articles also in the Dublin University Magazine for 1839, and much Irish folklore is within the pages of the Folklore Journal and the Folklore Record, and in the proceedings of the Kilkenny Archæological Society. The Penny Journal, the Newry Magazine, Duffy's Sixpenny Magazine, and the Hibernian Magazine, are also worth a search by any Irish writer on the look-out for subjects for song or ballad. My own articles in the Scots Observer and National Observer give many gatherings from the little-reaped Connaught fields. I repeat this list of authorities from my Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry,—a compilation from some of the sources mentioned,—bringing it down to date and making one or two corrections. The reader who would know Irish tradition should read these books above all others—Lady Wilde's Ancient Legends, Douglas Hyde's Beside the Fire, and a book not mentioned in the foregoing list, for it deals with the bardic rather than the folk literature, Standish O'Grady's History of Ireland, Heroic Period—perhaps the most imaginative book written on any Irish subject in recent decades.
THE CHILDREN'S LIBRARY.
THE BROWN OWL.
A CHINA CUP, and other Stories.
STORIES FROM FAIRYLAND.
THE LITTLE PRINCESS.
THE STORY OF A PUPPET.
TALES FROM THE MABINOGION.
IRISH FAIRY TALES.
(Others in the Press.)
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Plot Summary
This text is a comprehensive, updated list of authorities on Irish folklore, compiled by the author from their earlier work. It details numerous books, authors, magazines, and journals that contain valuable Irish legends, superstitions, and fairy tales. The author highlights key works and personal contributions, guiding readers to the most essential sources for understanding Irish tradition. The text concludes with a separate list of children's library books, some of which are fairy tales.
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This text serves as a bibliography or guide to the burgeoning field of Irish folklore collection and study in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, reflecting a period of cultural revival and interest in preserving national heritage.
Plot Beats (12)
- The author begins by listing various books and authors considered authorities on Irish folklore, such as Croker, Lady Wilde, and Sir William Wilde.
- The list continues with works by McAnally, Lageniensis, Curtin, Douglas Hyde, and Patrick Kennedy, including specific titles.
- The author also notes folklore found in chap-books like *Royal Fairy Tales* and *Tales of the Fairies*.
- Further sources are identified in works by Carleton, Lover, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall, Lady Chatterton, and Gerald Griffen.
- The author suggests that an Irish magazine should compile stray legends from Griffen's works and mentions folklore in *The Collegians* and *Hibernian Tales*.
- Specific Banshee stories are noted in Miss Lefanu's *Memoirs of my Grandmother* and Barrington's *Recollections*, and stories in Donovan's introduction to the *Four Masters*.
- The author points out significant articles in the *Dublin and London Magazine*, David Fitzgerald's contributions to the *Review Celtique*, and Miss M'Clintock's articles in the *Dublin University Magazine*.
- Other valuable sources include the *Folklore Journal*, *Folklore Record*, and proceedings of the *Kilkenny Archæological Society*, along with various penny and sixpenny magazines.
- The author mentions their own articles in the *Scots Observer* and *National Observer*, which contain folklore from Connaught.
- The author states that this list is a corrected and updated version from their own *Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry*.
- The author recommends Lady Wilde's *Ancient Legends*, Douglas Hyde's *Beside the Fire*, and Standish O'Grady's *History of Ireland, Heroic Period* as essential reading for Irish tradition.
- A separate section titled 'THE CHILDREN'S LIBRARY' is presented, listing several children's books, including *Irish Fairy Tales*.