The Kiltartan poetry book [by Lady Gregory] (1919)

The Kiltartan Poetry Book by Lady Gregory contains prose translations from the Irish into English. In translating these poems Lady Gregory stated in the introduction to the volume "I have chosen to do so in the speech of the thatched houses where I have heard and gathered them".

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The four winds of Eirinn [by Ethna Carbery] (1902)

Ethna Carbery (born Anna Johnston) was an Irish journalist, writer and poet. She is best known for the ballad Roddy McCorley.  In 1901 she married poet and folklorist Séamus MacManus and moved with him to Revlin House in County Donegal. It was then that she began writing under the pen name of Ethna Carbery because once she took the last name of MacManus she didn't want to be confused with her husband (also a writer). She died in Revlin House of gastritis the following year, aged 35. Her husband, who was three years her junior, outlived her by 58 years Although MacManus and Johnston were only married for one year her impact on his life ran deep. Her poetry was published by her husband after her death in the The Four Winds of Erin, which was phenomenally successful over the next few years.

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Irish fairy tales [by Edmund Leamy] (1890)

Irish Fairy Tales was published in 1890. The introduction for the volume emphasizes that Leamy wrote for children to entertain them, and not with a literary critic in mind. It’s with this spirit that Leamy endows all of his tales with a magic anyone can appreciate.

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William Butler Yeats Free Audiobooks

The Wild Swans at Coole [Version 2] [by William Butler Yeats]

A collection of poems from the mid-career of this renowned Irish poet, the title poem referring to the estate of his friend and mentor, Lady Gregory. The poems display Yeats' use of symbols (cat, hare, moon, etc), his attachment to the supernatural and Irish folklore, and his recourse to alter egos (Aherne and Robartes). They also exemplify his distinctive style of expression.

Read in English by Peter Tucker

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John Sherman and Dhoya [by W.B. Yeats]

In 1891, Yeats published "John Sherman", a novella, and "Dhoya", a Celtic mythologic story. Ganconagh, Yeats’s nom de plume for this work, is the name of a male faerie in Irish mythology that is known for seducing human women. This is a LibriVox recording of John Sherman and Dhoya, by William Butler Yeats. Read by David Wales.

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Celtic Twilight [by WB Yeats]

The Celtic Twilight consists of 42 Irish and Celtic folklore tales. Read by Shakira Searle; Arie; Russell Hughes; Jordan Heron; John O'Riordan; Luna Pierson; KHand; Tim Rainey; Anusha Iyer; Robert Dixon; John Van Stan; Simon Smoke; Kathy Wright; JamesMcAndrew; Glenn O'Brien; MaryAnne; ImkeStevens; Max Wainer; MaryAnn; and Erin B. Lillis.

Yeats makes no secret of his fascination and even belief in the world of the occult and the existence of faeries. His passion in these tales comes forth through the pages and adds a new dimension to these age-old tales.

"Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet". W. B. Yeats

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Crossways [by W. B. Yeats]

Crossways [1889] was the first collection of poetry by Irish-born poet William Butler Yeats. Many decades before his mysterious and austere Modernist verse earned him a nobel prize, Yeats achieved renown as one of the last major poets in the High Romantic tradition. These poems showcase his Celtic imagination, his love for Irish folk-tales, and his commitment to the Romantic ideal of love.

01 - The Song of the Happy Shepherd

02 - The Sad Shepherd

03 - The Cloak, The Boat and The Shoes

04 - Anashuya and Vijaya

05 - The Indian Upon God

06 - The Indian To His Love

07 - The Falling of the Leaves

08 - Ephemera

09 - The Madness of King Goll

10 - The Stolen Child

11 - To an Isle in the Water

12 - Down by the Salley Gardens

13 - The Meditation of the Old Fisherman

14 - The Ballad of John O'Hart

15 - The Ballad of Moll Magee

16 - The Ballad of the Foxhunter

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In The Seven Woods [by William Butler Yeats]

In the Seven Woods (1904) is Yeats's first twentieth-century poetry collection. Its fourteen poems show him moving steadily away from the decisively Romantic diction of his earlier work. Here we hear a poetic voice that is at once more individual, colloquial and dramatic than previously. In addition, several poems sound a note of bitter lamentation over the marriage in 1903 of Maud Gonne, Yeats's great love and muse, to John MacBride. 

Read by Kasper Nijsen.

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In The Seven Woods [by William Butler Yeats]

The Wild Swans at Coole [by William Butler Yeats]

The Wild Swans at Coole is a collection of poems by William Butler Yeats, first published in 1917. It is also the name of a poem in that collection. The Wild Swans at Coole is in the "middle stage" of Yeats' writing and is concerned with, amongst other themes, Irish nationalism and the creation of an Irish aesthetic.

Read by Nicole Lee.

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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

A Selection From The Love Poetry Of William Butler Yeats [by W.B Yeats]

William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter, John Butler Yeats. He studied painting as a young man but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. His writing drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Also a potent influence on his poetry was the Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne, whom he met in 1889, a woman equally famous for her passionate nationalist politics and her beauty. Though she married another man in 1903 and grew apart from Yeats, she remained a powerful figure in his poetry

Contained in this volume are 33 of his finest love poems, including; He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, When You are Old & The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart

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Crossways [by W. B. Yeats]

Crossways [1889] was the first collection of poetry by Irish-born poet William Butler Yeats. Many decades before his mysterious and austere Modernist verse earned him a nobel prize, Yeats achieved renown as one of the last major poets in the High Romantic tradition. These poems showcase his Celtic imagination, his love for Irish folk-tales, and his commitment to the Romantic ideal of love.

01 - The Song of the Happy Shepherd
02 - The Sad Shepherd
03 - The Cloak, The Boat and The Shoes
04 - Anashuya and Vijaya
05 - The Indian Upon God
06 - The Indian To His Love
07 - The Falling of the Leaves
08 - Ephemera
09 - The Madness of King Goll
10 - The Stolen Child
11 - To an Isle in the Water
12 - Down by the Salley Gardens
13 - The Meditation of the Old Fisherman
14 - The Ballad of John O'Hart
15 - The Ballad of Moll Magee
16 - The Ballad of the Foxhunter

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Twenty One Poems [by Katharine Tynan] [1907]

Katharine Tynan, was born at Whitehall dairy farm, Clondalkin, County Dublin. She was one of 12 children of Andrew Cullen Tynan and Elizabeth Reilly Tynan. She attended the Dominican Convent of St Catherine of Siena, Drogheda for 6 years [to age 14] and considered a religious novitiate. She first met W. B. Yeats  in 1885 and formed a lifelong friendship,and Yeats himself selected the poems for this particular anthology. Tynan besides poetry also wrote more than 100 novels, 12 collections of short stories, 3 plays, and anthologies, as well as innumerable articles on social questions such as poor children and women’s working conditions. Anyone unfamiliar with her might well recognize "The Wind that Shakes the Barley". A well known song encompassing her poem as lyrics.

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Fairy And Folk Tales Of The Irish Peasantry [Edited by W.B Yeats] [1890]

W.B Yeats never made a secret of his fascination and even belief in the world of the occult and the existence of faeries. His passion in these tales comes forth through the pages and adds a new dimension to these age-old tales. Willie B. is definitely the Go to many for Celtic Mythology.





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The Wind Among The Reeds [by W.B. Yeats] [1902]

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. He studied poetry in his youth and from an early age was fascinated by both Irish legends and the occult. The Wind Among The Reeds published in 1902, is in many critics opinion the main achievement of his early works. Imagery of Yeats' poetry at this time is filled with characters from Celtic Mythology and Folklore.

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The Circle And The Sword [by Joseph Mary Plunkett] [1919]

Joseph Mary Plunkett [21 November 1887 – 4 May 1916] was an Irish nationalist, poet, journalist, and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising. Plunkett was one of the original members of the IRB Military Committee that was responsible for planning the Easter Rising, and it was largely his plan that was followed. Shortly before the rising was to begin, Plunkett was hospitalised following a turn for the worse in his health. He had an operation on his neck glands days before Easter and had to struggle out of bed to take part in what was to follow. Still bandaged, he took his place in the General Post Office with several other of the rising's leaders such as Patrick Pearse and Tom Clarke, though his health prevented him from being terribly active. His energetic aide de camp was Michael Collins.

Following the surrender Plunkett was held in Kilmainham Gaol, and faced a court martial. Seven hours before his execution by firing squad at the age of 28, he was married in the prison chapel to his sweetheart Grace Gifford,

The Circle And The Sword a books of Plunketts poems was published in 1919 three years after his execution.

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Songs Of Myself [by Thomas MacDonagh][1910]

Thomas MacDonagh [1 February 1878 – 3 May 1916] was an Irish political activist, poet, playwright, educationalist and revolutionary leader. He was one of the seven leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916, a signatory of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic and Commandant of the 2nd Battalion, Dublin Brigade of the Irish Volunteers, which fought in Jacob's biscuit factory. He was executed for his part in the Rising at the age of thirty-eight. Below is a copy of one of his four poetry books Songs Of Myself [by Thomas MacDonagh][1910].

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Songs Of The Fields [by Francis Ledwidge] [1916]

Francis Edward Ledwidge [19 August 1887 – 31 July 1917] was an Irish war poet from County Meath. Sometimes known as the "poet of the blackbirds", he was killed in action at the Battle of Passchendaele during World War I.

Oh what a pleasant world 'twould be,

How easy we'd step thro' it,

If all the fools who meant no harm,

Could manage not to do it!

Quote By Francis Ledwidge

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