IRISH FAIRY TALES
M. H. Gill & Son, Ltd.,
Dublin.
CONTENTS
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| Preface, | vii |
| Note, | xi |
| Princess Finola and the Dwarf, | 1 |
| The House in the Lake, | 19 |
| The Little White Cat, | 41 |
| The Golden Spears, | 63 |
| The Fairy Tree of Dooros, | 82 |
| The Enchanted Cave, | 101 |
| The Huntsman’s Son, | 124 |
| Notes, | 145 |
The author of the tales contained in this volumewas one of the brightest and most poetic spiritswho have appeared in Ireland in the last halfcentury. It is needless to say that he was alsoone of the most patriotic Irishmen of his generation––patrioticin the highest and widest sense ofthat term, loving with an ardent love his country,its people, its historic traditions, its hills and plains,its lakes and streams, its raths and mounds. Likeall men of his
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