Author: Eileen O'FaoláinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Collection of timeless stories of Irish fairy lore, wonder and the supernatural.
Children of the Salmon and Other Irish Folk Tales
Author: Eileen O'FaoláinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Collection of timeless stories of Irish fairy lore, wonder and the supernatural.
The Salmon of Knowledge
Author: Celina BuckleyPublisher: Starfish Bay Children's Books
ISBN: 9781760361631
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Children will enjoy the unique collage illustrations and an unexpected twist in this retelling of a traditional Irish legend about an old man seeking an enchanted fish that will give him all the knowledge in the world and a young boy hoping to become a great warrior.
Irish Legends for Children
Author: Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781589802780
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This beautifully illustrated collection contains six tales that have been passed down for generations in Ireland, including Children of Lir, a mystical twist on the traditional evil stepmother fable, and Fionn and the Dragon, in which the prince of Fianna uses his bravery to reclaim his throne.
Children of the Salmon and other Irish folktales
Author: The World of the Irish Wonder Tale
Author: Elliott B. Gose, Jr.Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 148759769X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Fairy tales are a rich element of childhood in many cultures around the world. But in Ireland, where they are known as wonder tales, these stories of magic and enchantment are not restricted to young audiences; Irish wonder tales are told to adults. So that the modern reader can fully appreciate them, Gose provides an interdisciplinary overview. He identifies a number of approaches – psychological, anthropological, structural, comparative, and typological.
A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature
Author: Heather IngmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108654584
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
This book offers the first comprehensive survey of writing by women in Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present day. It covers literature in all genres, including poetry, drama, and fiction, as well as life-writing and unpublished writing, and addresses work in both English and Irish. The chapters are authored by leading experts in their field, giving readers an introduction to cutting edge research on each period and topic. Survey chapters give an essential historical overview, and are complemented by a focus on selected topics such as the short story, and key figures whose relationship to the narrative of Irish literary history is analysed and reconsidered. Demonstrating the pioneering achievements of a huge number of many hitherto neglected writers, A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature makes a critical intervention in Irish literary history.
Children of the Salmon
Author: Eileen O'FaoláinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780907085768
Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Fionn mac Cumhail
Author: James MacKillopPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815623533
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Gaelic hero Fionn mac Cumhaill (often known in English as Finn MacCool) has had a long life. First cited in Old Irish chronicles from the early Christian era, he became the central hero of the Fenian Cycle which flourished in the high Middle Ages. Stories about Fionn and his warriors continue to be told by storytellers in Ireland and in Gaelic Scotland to this day. This book traces the development of Fionn's persona in Irish and Scottish texts and constructs a heroic biography of him. As aspects of the hero are borrowed into English and later world literature, his personality undergoes several changes. Seen as less than admirable, he may become either a buffoon or a blackguard. Somehow these contradictions exist side by side. Among the writers in English most interested in Fionn are James Macpherson, the "translator" of The Poems of Ossian ( 17601, William Carleton, the first great fiction writer of nineteenth-century Ireland, and Fiann O'Brien, the multifaceted author of At Swim-Two-Birds. Aspects of Fiann appear as far apart as Mendelssohn's "Hebrides (or Fingal 's Cave) Overture" and a contemporary rock opera. But the most complex use of Fionn's story in modern literature is James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century
Author: David PiercePublisher: Cork University Press
ISBN: 9781859182086
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1380
Book Description
With five Nobel Prize-winners, seven Pulitzer Prize-winners and two Booker Prize-winning novelists, modern Irish writing has contributed something special and permanent to our understanding of the twentieth century. Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century provides a useful, comprehensive and pleasurable introduction to modern Irish literature in a single volume. Organized chronologically by decade, this anthology provides the reader with a unique sense of the development and richness of Irish writing and of the society it reflected. It embraces all forms of writing, not only the major forms of drama, fiction and verse, but such material as travel writing, personal memoirs, journalism, interviews and radio plays, to offer the reader a complete and wonderfully varied sense of Ireland's contribution our literary heritage. David Pierce has selected major literary figures as well as neglected ones, and includes many writers from the Irish diaspora. The range of material is enormous, and ensures that work that is inaccessible or out of print is now easily available. The book is a delightful compilation, including many well known pieces and captivating "discoveries," which anyone interested in literature will long enjoy browsing and dipping into.
Finn McCool and the Great Fish
Author: Eve BuntingPublisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1585365823
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
Finn McCool is the largest giant in all of Ireland. He's a fierce warrior, even beating the giant Culcullan and saving Ireland from the Scots. Helpful and kind, he helps the farmers bring in the hay. And everyone in the village of Drumnahoon admires him. "He's the best-hearted man that ever walked on Ireland's green grass." But for all his strength, courage, and goodness, there's one thing that Finn lacks. He's just not smart. And he knows it. When a wise man living in a nearby village tells Finn about a magical red salmon with the wisdom of the world, Finn sets out to catch the fish. And he learns a thing or two about himself in the process. An author of more than 250 children's books, Eve Bunting has won numerous awards and honors, including a Pen International Special Achievement award for her contribution to Children's Literature. In 2002 she was chosen to be Irish American Woman of the Year by the Irish American Heritage Committee of New York. She lives in Pasadena, California. Zachary Pullen's picture-book illustrations have won awards and garnered starred reviews. He has been honored several times with acceptance into the prestigious Society of Illustrators juried shows and Communication Arts Illustration Annual of the best in current illustration. Zak lives in Wyoming.