For untold generations in countless Irish cottages, in front of peat-fueled fires, some of the gayest, most fanciful, and most sparkling folk tales that ever caused young eyes to grow brighter and young hearts to beat faster were told. Fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, even great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers have repeated the same stories that thrilled them as youngsters. *** "Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales", the third in Joseph Jacobs's five-book "Folk and Fairy Tale" series, was originally published in 1892. This edition contains all twenty-six of the original stories, all forty-five of the original illustrations (plus twenty-six drop-cap letter blocks) by John D. Batten, and twenty-five pages of notes and references on the stories for the interested scholar. *** In this book are the most popular of these stories, each one richly endowed with all the magic and charm, all the humor and color of the vivid Irish Imagination. These stories, some of them more than a thousand years old are as fascinating today as they were when Connla of the Fiery Hair, the Horned Women, and Conall Yellowclaw roamed Irish field, glenn, and forest. *** This book contains these stories: Connla and the Fairy Maiden; Guleesh; The Field of Boliauns; The Horned Women; Conall Yellowclaw; Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary; The Shepherd of Myddvai; The Sprightly Tailor; The Story of Deirdre; Munachar and Manachar; Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree; King O'Toole and His Goose; The Wooing of Olwen; Jack and His Comrades; The Shee An Gannon and The Gruagach Gaire; The Story-Teller at Fault; The Sea-Maiden; A Legend of Knockmany; Fair, Brown, and Trembling; Jack and His Master; Beth Gellert; The Tale of Ivan; Andrew Coffey; The Battle of the Birds; Brewery of Eggshells; The Lad with the Goat-Skin. *** Check out the other Fairy Books from Flying Chipmunk Publishing!