Padraic Colum, ed., A Treasury of Irish Folklore [2nd edn.] (1967)

Bibliographical details: A Treasury of Irish Folklore, the stories, traditions, legends, humours, wisdom, ballads and songs of the Irish People, ed. with intro. by Patrick Colum, 2nd rev. ed. (NY:Crown Pub. 1967), 613pp.

Parts:
  • ‘The Irish Edge’
  • ‘Heroes of Old’;
  • ‘Great Chiefs and Uncrowned Kings’
  • ‘Ireland Without Leaders’
  • ‘Ways and Traditions’
  • ‘Fireside Tales’
  • ‘The Face of the Land’
  • ‘Ballads and Songs’
  • Numerous biog. articles from The Gael, viz., Geraldine M. Haverty, ‘Lord Edward Fitzgerald’ (Sept. 1901), pp.293-296; Charles O’Hanlon, ‘John Philpot Curran,’ Gael (Feb. 1900), pp.52-54, New York. Douglas Hyde, ‘A Famous Mayo Poet’ [Raftery], The Gael, April 1903, pp.115-116. Note that the Abbé Edgeworth is quoted at p.248.
 

‘Ballads and Songs’ [includes also John Hewitt’s, “Once Alien Here”, under sect. ‘A Bit of the North’ which also contains ‘Winter’ by James Orr, collected by Hewitt in Rann (Lisburn), winter 1950, p.6.

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