irish folktales?

Question

Where can I find irish folktales? it must be 2+ pages

Answer 1

Various resources on this:

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/yeats/fip/index.htm

Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland Index by Jeremiah Curtin
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/mfli/index.htm

Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore and Drama
http://www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland/

Tales of the Daoine Sidhe
http://home.iprimus.com.au/sidhe/sidhe.html

Answer 2

ok well i'm fully irish so i suggest you do

1)the children of lir
2)Culcullan

Children of Lir is about 3 kids being turned into swans. 100 years in 1 location, 100 years in location 2 and 100 years in location 3. Then aafter 300 years they turn human

Cucullan is about a young guy and a "princess" comes on a horse and takes him away to her land where they stay young forever. After a period of time, he wants to go back and she warns him about the consequences

do which ever sounds interesting to you but i think the Children of Lir might work out over the 2 page mark!

Answer 3

The Cat of the Carman's Stage
Ireland
A carman was leaving Bunclody one morning for Dublin, when what should he see but a neighbor's cat galloping along the side of the road, and crying out every moment, "Tell Moll Browne, Tom Dunne is dead. Tell Moll Browne, Tom Dunne is dead."
At last he got tired of this ditty, and took up a stone and flung it at the cat, bidding himself, and Tom Browne, and Moll Dunne, to go to Halifax, and not be botherin' him.
When he got to Luke Byrne's in Francis Street, where all the Wicklow and Wexford carmen used to stop, he was taking a pot of beer in the taproom, and began to tell the quare thing that happened on the road. There was a comfortable-looking gray cat sitting by the fire, and the moment he mentioned what the Bunclody cat was saying, she cried out, "That's my husband!" That's my husband!"
She made only one leap out through the door, and no one ever saw her at Luke Byrne's again.

·Source: Patrick Kennedy, Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts (London: Macmillan and Co., 1866), pp. 157-158.
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Answer 4

Go to the library!!!
Find a book by Michael Scott. He is the recognized authority on Irish folklore, myth and legend.

Answer 5

Did a quick google and could find mainly places to buy books on the tales. I did not want to spend 10 minutes searching now. But if you want to buy try the URL below.

Answer 6

go to www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland hope this helps

Answer 7

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/yeats/fip/index.htm

there's tons of them on there
:) hoped it helped