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A VOICE
One day I was walking over a bit of marshy ground close to Inchy Wood when I felt, all of a sudde...
THE SWINE OF THE GODS
A few years ago a friend of mine told me of something that happened to him when he was a. young m...
ARISTOTLE OF THE BOOKS
The friend who can get the wood-cutter to talk more readily than he will to anybody else went lat...
MIRACULOUS CREATURES
There are marten cats and badgers and foxes in the Enchanted Woods, but there are of a certainty ...
"AND FAIR, FIERCE WOMEN"
One day a woman that I know came face to face with heroic beauty, that highest beauty which Blake...
REGINA, REGINA PIGMEORUM, VENI
One night a middle-aged man, who had lived all his life far from the noise of cab-wheels, a young...
THE LAST GLEEMAN
Michael Moran was born about 1794 off Black Pitts, in the Liberties of Dublin, in Faddle Alley. A...
THE DEVIL
My old Mayo woman told me one day that something very bad had come down the road and gone into th...
THE SORCERERS
In Ireland we hear but little of the darker powers,1 and come across any who have seen them even ...
AN ENDURING HEART
One day a friend of mine was making a sketch of my Knight of the Sheep. The old man's daughter wa...
A KNIGHT OF THE SHEEP
Away to the north of Ben Bulben and Cope's mountain lives "a strong farmer," a knight of the shee...
VILLAGE GHOSTS
In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little town...
A VISIONARY
A young man came to see me at my lodgings the other night, and began to talk of the making of the...
MORTAL HELP
One hears in the old poems of men taken away to help the gods in a battle, and Cuchullan won the ...
BELIEF AND UNBELIEF
There are some doubters even in the western villages. One woman told me last Christmas that she d...
A TELLER OF TALES
Many of the tales in this book were told me by one Paddy Flynn, a little bright-eyed old man, who...
THE HOSTING OF THE SIDHE
The host is riding from Knocknarea,And over the grave of Clooth-na-bare;Caolte tossing his burnin...
103. New Themes Entered Upon
1876, ’77.—I FIND the woods in mid-May and early June my best places for composition.1 Seated on ...
Introduction
In one of his speeches a short time ago, that fine speaker and famous Liberal, Mr. Bright, took o...
Civil Disobedience
I heartily accept the motto,—"That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to ...