{bhon an leabhar Folk Tales and Fairy Lore in Gaelic and English, cruinnichte bhon beul-aithris le Urra. James MacDougall (1910)}TÀCHARAN CEANN an t-SÀILEIN ( Read more... )

Iomadh bliadhna air ais bha caileag bòidheach ann. O! B' i bòidheach, gu dearbh. Bha gille a' fuireach ann an baile faisg air agus bha gaol aige oirre agus bha gaol aice roimhe. Ach nuair nach robh e roimhe, cha robh i ( Read more... )

This is the story in Gaelic that I am relating on sluagh_aotrom (in my guise as kimuro).

( B' E mac iasgair a bh' ann an Iain Dubh. )

( part 4 )

( part 3 )

Bha am fear beag ann an Rìoghachd nam Fear Mòra. Bha Fionn agus a cho-dhaltan air a dhol dhachaigh. Chuala am fear beag bho na bràithrean mu rèiseamaid shaighdearan. Bha cailleach ann cuideachd. Bha soitheach draoidheil aice. Bha i a' cur corrag anns an t-soitheach is an uair sin ann am beul duine a chaill a cheann. Bha an duine sin ag èirigh ( Read more... )

When last we saw Daniel Crowley, the party was beginning to heat up, and if you know anything at all about the Irish, that's when things start into getting interesting.
( the last part of the story )

You'll remember, of course, that Daniel Crowley who was a coffin-maker by trade, stopped in at a wake and had a wee drop of the wet too much so that when a match-maker approached him, he cast her off from him in no uncertain terms, causing the mother who'd sent the match-maker nigh to see red and begin to flyte him back. She accused Daniel of ( Read more... )

this tale appeared first in The Gael April 1899 and was reprinted in A Treasury of Irish Folklore edited by Padraic Colum in 1967Now sure and there lived in a man in Cork who went by the name of Daniel Crowley, a coffin-maker by trade and bachelor by profession. He was a foresightful man, prosperous and merry with a many coffin laid by ready-made ( Read more... )

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