The Irish Fairy Book [by Alfred Perceval Graves] [1909]

Welcome to a world of wild banshees, leprechauns, mermaids, battle-tested kings, churchyard demons, and treasure-guarding cats. This is the world of the Irish fairy tale, a magical realm kept alive by generations of storytellers and their avid listeners. As Alfred Perceval Graves, author of the ballad „Father O'Flynn” and a former president of the Irish Literary Society, wrote in the introduction, The truth is that the Gaelic peasant, Scotch and Irish, is a mystic, and believes not only in this world, and the world to come, but in that other world which is the world of Faery, and which exercises an extraordinary influence upon many actions of his life.” This volume comes beautifully illustrated by George Denham,

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The Irish Poems Of Alfred Perceval Graves [Songs Of The Gael. A Gaelic Story Telling] [by Alfred Perceval Graves] [1908]

 The Irish Poems of Alfred Perceval Graves were published in two volumes with a preface by Douglas Hyde in 1908. They continued the consistently Irish tone of his work. Here is a very nice copy of one of the volumes The Irish Poems Of Alfred Perceval Graves [Songs Of The Gael. A Gaelic Story Telling] [1908]

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The Irish Poems Of Alfred Perceval Graves [Songs Of The Gael. A Gaelic Story Telling] [by Alfred Perceval Graves] [190