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FOLKLORE & MYTH · 1888 · PUBLIC DOMAIN

Irish Wonders

The Ghosts, Giants, Pooka, Demons, Leprechawns, Banshees, Fairies, Witches, Widows, Old Maids, and other Marvels of the Emerald Isle

D. R. McAnally

19 CHAPTERS · 60,023 WORDS · ABOUT 227 MINUTES

D. R. McAnally's Irish collection — the banshee, the pooka, the leprechawn, the round towers and the rest — written in heavy dialect for an American readership, and useful as a record of what was being told in the 1880s rather than as a scholar's text.

SUBJECTSIrelandBansheePookaLeprechaun
TAGS#ireland#mcanally#banshee#pooka#leprechaun
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CONTENTS

  1. 1AS A MODEST TRIBUTE OF1 MIN
  2. 2IRISH WONDERS31 MIN
  3. 3"IF IT'S AGGRAYBLE TO YE, I'LL LOOK IN YER MOUTH." — part 111 MIN
  4. 4"IF IT'S AGGRAYBLE TO YE, I'LL LOOK IN YER MOUTH." — part 212 MIN
  5. 5"IF IT'S AGGRAYBLE TO YE, I'LL LOOK IN YER MOUTH." — part 312 MIN
  6. 6"IF IT'S AGGRAYBLE TO YE, I'LL LOOK IN YER MOUTH." — part 411 MIN
  7. 7"IF IT'S AGGRAYBLE TO YE, I'LL LOOK IN YER MOUTH." — part 512 MIN
  8. 8"IF IT'S AGGRAYBLE TO YE, I'LL LOOK IN YER MOUTH." — part 611 MIN
  9. 9"IF IT'S AGGRAYBLE TO YE, I'LL LOOK IN YER MOUTH." — part 712 MIN
  10. 10"IF IT'S AGGRAYBLE TO YE, I'LL LOOK IN YER MOUTH." — part 811 MIN
  11. 11"IF IT'S AGGRAYBLE TO YE, I'LL LOOK IN YER MOUTH." — part 912 MIN
  12. 12"IF IT'S AGGRAYBLE TO YE, I'LL LOOK IN YER MOUTH." — part 1012 MIN
  13. 13"IF IT'S AGGRAYBLE TO YE, I'LL LOOK IN YER MOUTH." — part 1112 MIN
  14. 14"IF IT'S AGGRAYBLE TO YE, I'LL LOOK IN YER MOUTH." — part 1212 MIN
  15. 15"IF IT'S AGGRAYBLE TO YE, I'LL LOOK IN YER MOUTH." — part 1312 MIN
  16. 16"IF IT'S AGGRAYBLE TO YE, I'LL LOOK IN YER MOUTH." — part 1411 MIN
  17. 17"IF IT'S AGGRAYBLE TO YE, I'LL LOOK IN YER MOUTH." — part 157 MIN
  18. 18AN' PHAT DOES THIM LETTERS SHPELL?21 MIN
  19. 19"OULD ROONEY AN' PADDY BLAGGARDIN' THE CONSTHABLE IVERY FUT O' THE WAY."4 MIN

THE TEXT

Text of the Project Gutenberg edition (Irish Wonders: The Ghosts, Giants, Pooka, Demons, Leprechawns, Banshees, Fairies, Witches, Widows, Old Maids, and other Marvels of the Emerald Isle). Taken from Project Gutenberg (eBook #19486). Public domain in the United States; no rights are claimed over the text.