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Irish Fairy Tales

W. B.

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. . .Go steadily along, but let your step be even; stop little; keep always advancing; and you'll never have cause to rue the day that you first saw Even Trot.'

We need scarcely add that Biddy won the kemp and the husband, and that she and Shaun lived long and happily together; and I have only now to wish, kind reader, that you and I may live longer and more happily still.

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THE YOUNG PIPER By Crofton Croker

here lived not long since, on the borders of the county Tipperary, a decent honest couple, whose names were Mick Flannigan and Judy Muldoon. These poor people were blessed, as the saying is, with four children, all boys: three of them were as fine, stout, healthy, good-looking children as ever the sun shone upon; and it was enough to make any Irishman proud of the breed of his countrymen to see them about one o'clock on a fine summer's day standing at their father's cabin[33] door, with their beautiful flaxen hair hanging. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Чудные сказания, чудный перевод, каждое слово сплошной восторг

Very earther

I loved reading the myths, greAt use of footnotes. I began to read under the influence of The Beatles, pink Floyd and Peter noone. Very trippy.

Упоительно-сладкий мёд.
Любовное томление и лёгкое дыхание.
Густо-населённое собрание героев и дивных существ, некогда поцеловавших ирландскую землю в макушку, от того она столь зелена, пушиста и пригожа, пусть и опасна, порывиста и сурова. Но одного без второго не бывает и не должно быть.

Читаешь книг

I picked this up because everyone is using Faery in their stories and I wanted to have a better understanding of the mythology that people are (loosely) pulling from. I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed these tales.

My favorite aspects of the book as a whole:

Religious Conflict: The confl

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