Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland

"Have you ever seen a fairy or such like?" I asked the old man in County Sligo. "Amn't I annoyed with them?" was the answer - W. B. Yeats, from the introduction.

The Book of Fairy and Folk-Tales of Ireland, compiled by W. B. Yeats from various sources, is bursting with tall tales of fairy folk and their ways. Yeats has brought together the work of the best Irish folklorists, including Lady Wilde and Douglas Hyde.

These stories recreate a mystical vanished world, where banshees and leprechauns, changelings, and bewitched animals live alongside mortal men and women.