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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

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This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and translated them near the end of the 1800s. - Summary by Michele Eaton (11 hr 20 min)

Chapters

Introduction

18:24

Read by Juliet Brown

The Trooping Fairies - The Fairies

6:20

Read by Juliet Brown

Frank Martin and The Fairies

8:36

Read by Juliet Brown

The Priest's Supper - The Fairy Well of Lagnanay

11:15

Read by Juliet Brown

Teig O'Kane and the Corpse

29:26

Read by Juliet Brown

Paddy Corcoran's Wife - Cusheen Loo the White Trout: A Legend of Cong

12:01

Read by Juliet Brown

The Fairy Thorn - The Legend of Knockgrafton - A Donegal Fairy

14:48

Read by Juliet Brown

Changelings The Brewery of Egg-shells - The Fairy Nurse

8:20

Read by Juliet Brown

Jamie Freel and the Young Lady - The Stolen Child

15:23

Read by Juliet Brown

The Merrow The Soul Cages

27:04

Read by Juliet Brown

Flory Cantillon's Funeral

7:56

Read by Juliet Brown

The Solitary Fairies -The Lepracaun, or, Fairy Shoemaker

3:38

Read by Diana Schmidt

Master and Man - Far Darrig in Donegal

27:47

Read by Esther C

The Piper and the Puca - Daniel O'Rourke

21:07

Read by Amelia Chesley

The Kildare Pooka - How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee

17:51

Read by Douglas Taylor

A Lamantation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald - The Banshee of the MacC…

35:56

Read by Douglas Taylor

Ghosts - A Dream

4:58

Read by Kristin G.

Grace Conner

4:08

Read by Aubrey Anne

A Legend of Tyrone

2:49

Read by Aubrey Anne

The Black Lamb - Song of the Ghost

3:26

Read by Kristin G.

The Radiant Boy - The Fate of Frank M'Kenna

20:55

Read by Esther C

Witches, Fairy Doctors Bewitched

8:26

Read by Alexandra Helms

Bewitched Butter (Donegal) - A Queen's County Witch

11:01

Read by Kristin G.

The Witch Hare - Bewitched Butter (Queen's County)

24:41

Read by Esther C

The Horned Women - The Witches Excursion

10:20

Read by Kristin G.

The Confessions of Tom Bourke

31:44

Read by Esther C

The Pudding Bewitched

29:44

Read by Esther C

Tyeer-Na-N-Oge The Legend of O'Donoghue

7:44

Read by Jane Muir

Rent-Day - Loughleagh (Lake of Healing)

20:15

Read by NoelBadrian

Hy-Brasail - The Isle of the Blest - The Phantom Isle

4:16

Read by Jessi McDaniel

Saints, Priests The Priest's Soul - The Priest of Coloony

15:10

Read by Lucy Kempton

The Story of the Little Bird - Conversion King Laoghaire's Daughters

5:27

Read by Kristin G.

King O'Toole and His Goose

9:58

Read by Aiken

The Devil The Demon Cat - The Long Spoon - The Countess Kathleen

13:35

Read by Michele Eaton

The Three Wishes Part 1

25:13

Read by Michele Eaton

The Three Wishes Part 2

29:35

Read by Michele Eaton

Giants - The Giant's Stairs

14:58

Read by Kyle B Jones

A Legend of Knockmany

25:47

Read by Kyle B Jones

Kings, Queens, Princesses, Earls, Robbers - The Twelve Wild Geese

10:38

Read by Brian Naylor

The Lazy Beauty and Her Aunts

12:30

Read by NoelBadrian

The Haughty Princess - The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla

13:37

Read by Kyle B Jones

Munachar and Manachar - Donald and his Neighbours

18:12

Read by Deon Gines

The Jackdaw

6:08

Read by Jessi McDaniel

The Story of Conn-eda

29:41

Read by clarinetcarrot

Bewertungen

(3 Sterne)

The stories are entertaining, however the reading quality varies. Some are too quiet, some produce the cringiest Irish accents and others have no idea how to pronounce the Irish words