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* Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens ( 16 colour plates, 20 line, 1920 )
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* James Stephens: Irish Fairy Tales ( 1920 )
* Irish Fairy Tales, a 1920 book by James Stephens containing many tales of Fionn mac Cumhaill
As described by Donal O ' Sullivan, Aibell ( modern spelling: Aoibheall ; pronounced ae-val ) " was the Fairy Queen of Thomond in Irish mythology ; and her palace, Carraig Liath or The Grey Rock, is a hill overlooking the Shannon about a mile and a half above Killaloe, on the Clare side of the river.
* Irish Fairy Tales, a 1920 book by James Stephens containing many tales of the Fianna
In a poem entitled The Lepracaun ; or, Fairy Shoemaker, 18th century Irish poet William Allingham describes the appearance of the leprechaun as:
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry.
Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde ( 27 December 1821 – 3 February 1896 ) ( born Jane Francesca Elgee in Dublin ) was an Irish poet under the pen name " Speranza " and supporter of the nationalist movement ; had a special interest on Irish Fairy Tales, which she helped to gather.
Among her works were plays such as Cluichidhe na Gaedhilge ( 1935 ) and story collections such as The Emerald Ring and Other Irish Fairy Stories ( 1951 ), The Stolen Child and Other Stories ( 1961 ), The Four-leafed Shamrock ( 1964 ) and The Miser's Gold ( 1970 ).
He is named after the banshee, a legendary ghost from Irish mythology, said to possess a powerful cry, although the banshee spirit is invariably female and the Irish Gaelic to English translation of Bean Sidhe ( Banshee ) is literally Fairy Woman, making it an odd choice for a male character ( the male version is Fear Sidhe ).
William Butler Yeats, in Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, further divided them into the Trooping Fairies and the Solitary Fairies.
The word " lay " or “ lai ” is thought to be derived from the Old High German and / or Old Middle German leich, which means play, melody, or song, or as suggested by Jack Zipes in The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales, the Irish word laid ( song ).
His retellings are marked by a rare combination of humor and lyricism ( Deirdre, and Irish Fairy Tales are often especially praised ).
1920 Irish Fairy Tales.
* Irish Champion Stakes – ( 5 ) – Swain ( 1998 ), Daylami ( 1999 ), Fantastic Light ( 2001 ), Grandera ( 2002 ), Snow Fairy ( 2012 )
In 1888 William Butler Yeats published Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, a compilation of pieces by various authors of the 18th and 19th centuries.
* Sinéad de Valera's collection for children The Emerald Ring and Other Irish Fairy Stories is published.
* W. B. Yeats publishes Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry and writes Down by the Salley Gardens.
Yeats had a great interest in Irish mythology about faeries resulting in his publication of Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry in 1888 and Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland in 1892.
* W. B. Yeats, Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
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Ancient Irish Tales.
Revised versions of " Irish Countess " and " Schalken " were reprinted in Le Fanu's first collection of short stories, the very rare Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery ( 1851 ).
The Absentee is a novel by Maria Edgeworth, published in 1812 in Tales of Fashionable Life, that expresses the systemic evils of the absentee landlord class of Anglo-Irish and the desperate condition of the Irish peasantry.
* T. P. Cross & C. H. Slover ( eds ) ( 1936 ), Ancient Irish Tales
) Under the name Deep Tides, Leopold Stokowski orchestrated The Tides of Manaunaun as the first of four Tales of Our Countryside ( aka Four Irish Tales ), which he recorded in 1941.
Stern has written forewords for Steal This Dream ( 1998 ), a biography of Abbie Hoffman, Disgustingly Dirty Joke Book ( 1998 ) by Jackie Martling, Too Fat to Fish ( 2008 ) by Artie Lange, and Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons: Tales of Redemption from an Irish Mailbox ( 2010 ) by Greg Fitzsimmons.
* Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy ( 2004 )
# Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy-" The Merrow " ( Short Story )
Fíanaigecht, being a Collection of Hitherto Unedited Irish Poems and Tales Relating to Finn and his Fiana, with an English Translation.
* 2009: An Invisible Prison, Tales of an Irish Childhood.
* ( 1916 ) The King of Ireland's Son ( New Sample of old Irish Tales )
* ( 1943 ) The Frenzied Prince ( Compilation of Irish Tales )
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On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.
O'Banion was born in poverty, the son of an immigrant Irish plasterer, in the North Side's Little Hell, close by the Sicilian quarter and Death Corner.
Then there are a pair of old biddies played by Grace Carney and Sibly Bowan who may be right off the shelf of stock Irish characters, but they put such a combination of good will and malevolence into their parts that they're quite entertaining.
Swift suggests that impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies.
Swift has his proposer further degrade the Irish by using language ordinarily reserved for animals.
Baker notes the uncanny way that both authors imply an ironic " justification by ownership " over the subject of sacrificing children — Tertullian while attacking pagan parents, and Swift while attacking the English mistreatment of the Irish poor.
Swift however, Landa argues, is not merely criticizing economic maxims but also addressing the fact that England was denying Irish citizens their natural rights and dehumanizing them by viewing them as a mere commodity.
One of the earliest group automorphisms ( automorphism of a group, not simply a group of automorphisms of points ) was given by the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1856, in his Icosian Calculus, where he discovered an order two automorphism, writing:
* 1922 – Six Irish Catholic civilians are shot and beaten-to-death by a gang of policemen in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
The word " electron " was coined in 1891 by the Irish physicist George Stoney whilst analyzing elementary charges for the first time.
* 1599 – Nine Years ' War: Battle of Curlew Pass – Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O ' Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle.
These were followed by significant numbers of freed Africans in the War of 1812, Irish immigrants in the mid 19th century and Dutch immigrants after World War II.
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* 1916 – Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.
* 1868 – Thomas D ' Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician.
In Ireland the oath was imposed of state office holders, teachers and lawyers, and on clergy of the established church in from 1703, the following year it was on all Irish voters and from 1709 it can be demanded from any adult male by a magistrate.
He suggested the Irish Feast of Bricriu as a source for Beowulf — a theory that was soon denied by Oscar Olson.
An initial attempt by Disraeli to negotiate with Cardinal Manning the establishment of a Roman Catholic university in Dublin foundered in March when Gladstone moved resolutions to disestablish the Irish Church altogether.
On the 1930 tour a delegation led by the Irish lock George Beamish expressed their displeasure at the fact that whilst the blue of Scotland, white of England and red of Wales were represented in the strip there was no green for Ireland.
The Lions were captained by Irish lock Paul O ' Connell.
The village of Oberglauheim was packed with 14 battalions commanded by the Marquis de Blainville ( including the effective Irish Brigade known as the ' Wild Geese ').
Count Horn directed the Prince of Holstein-Beck to take the village, but his two Dutch brigades were cut down by the French and Irish troops, capturing and badly wounding the Prince during the action.
With support from Colonel Blood's batteries, the Hessian, Hanoverian and Dutch infantry – now commanded by Count Berensdorf – succeeded in pushing the French and Irish infantry back into Oberglauheim so that they could not again threaten Churchill's flank as he moved against Tallard.
The 20 French and Bavarian battalions in Ramillies, supported by Irish dragoons and a small brigade of Cologne and Bavarian Guards under the Marquis de Maffei, put up a determined defence, initially driving back the attackers with severe losses.
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