The superior Secrets of the World multicultural storytelling series adds another excellent volume with this collection of tales from Ireland. Venerable storyteller and folklorist Lenihan sets an ...

Curated by University of Colorado Boulder students under the direction of Sean Babbs (Instruction Coordinator for the Libraries' Rare and Distinctive Collections) and Suzanne Magnanini (Associate ...

Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, Randee Dawn shares how a book of folk tales by W.B. Yeats was a "lightbulb moment" for her, and helped her ill grandfather DFlux Photography, LLC; CAEZIK SF & ...

Divided into four categories—“Tricksters,” “The Sea,” “Quests,” and “Romance”—the 16 tales that make up this handsomely designed collection are adapted from sources originally published between 1888 ...

Unfortunately, such is the fate of the collection of Irish folktales that has been smooshed into The King of Ireland’s Son by Canadian playwright Paula Wing. Commissioned to write a piece based on a ...

Curated by University of Colorado Boulder students under the direction of Sean Babbs (Instruction Coordinator for the Libraries' Rare and Distinctive Collections) and Suzanne Magnanini (Associate ...

The psychic legacy left by my father in New York, his memories of growing up in County Leitrim, and my deep heartfelt connection to family and home, albeit so far away. There was always the rain, the ...

WHEN Giraldus Cambrensis visited Ireland in the twelfth century, he found the people “a trifle paganish.” They believed in all sorts of fairies, banshees, witches, and changelings— “the gods of the ...

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