Index:Beside the Fire - Douglas Hyde.djvu

Title	Beside the fire : a collection of Irish Gaelic folk stories
Author	Douglas Hyde
Year	1890
Publisher	David Nutt
Location	London
Source	djvu
Progress	Proofread—All pages of the work proper are proofread, but not all are validated
Transclusion	Fully transcluded

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CONTENTS.

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Preface: Previous collections of Irish folk-lore; ignorance of the language on the part of collectors. Relation between Irish and Scotch Gaelic tales; the Irish bardic tales; the runs in Irish and Scotch. Date of Irish versions. Two classes of Irish stories; native myths. Narrators of the stories. Discouragement of Irish by schoolmasters, clergy, and politicians. Proper mode of collecting. System of translation accepted. Page, ix-l.
Postscript (by Alfred Nutt): Dr. Hyde's theories discussed; folk-lore and romance; necessity for romance to conform to convention; characteristics of folk-fancy; classification of the products of folk-fancy; myth, saga, Märchen and ballad; romance and folk-lore among the Gael; folk-conception of the Universe Page, li-lviii.
Tales.
I.	The Tailor and the Three Beasts	2-14
II.	Bran	14-18
III.	The King of Ireland's Son	18-46
IV.	The Alp-Luachra	46-72
V.	Paudyeen O'Kelly and the Weasel	72-90
VI.	Leeam O'Rooney's Burial	90-103
VII.	Guleesh na Guss Dhu	104-128
VIII.	The Well of D'Yerree-in-Dowan	129-141
IX.	The Court of Crinnawn	142-148
X.	Neil O'Carree	148-153
XI.	Trunk-without-Head	154-161
XII.	The Hags of the Long Teeth	161-166
XIII.	William of the Tree	167-169
XIV.	The Old Crow and the Young Crow	169
XV.	Riddles	170-172
Where the Stories came from		173-174
Notes		175-195
Notes on the Irish Text		197-200
Index of Incidents		201-203