The Book of Fairy & Folk Tales of Ireland

[waku]

The Priest of Colooney

Good Father John O'Hart
In penal days rode out
To a shoneen in his freelands,
With his snipe marsh and his trout.

In trust took he John's lands,
--Sleiveens were all his race--
And he gave them as dowers to his daughters,
And they married beyond their place.

But Father John went up,
And Father John went down;
And he wore small holes in his shoes,
And he wore large holes in his gown.

All loved him, only the shoneen,
Whom the devils have by the hair,
From their wives and their cats and their children,
To the birds in the white of the air.

The birds, for he opened their cages,
As he went up and down;
And he said with a smile, "Have peace, now,"
And went his way with a frown.

But if when anyone died,
Came keeners hoarser than rooks,
He bade them give over their keening,
For he was a man of books.

And these were the works of John,
When weeping score by score,
People came into Coloony,
For he'd died at ninety-four.

There was no human keening;
The birds from Knocknarea,
And the world round Knocknashee,
Came keening in that day,--

Keening from Innismurry,
Nor stayed for bit or sup;
This way were all reproved
Who dig old customs up.
W.B. Yeats

aus: The Book of Folk & Faiy tales of Ireland - Compiled by W.B.Yeats

Diese Paperbackausgabe von 2004 enthält die ursprünglichen Einzelausgaben von:
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888) und
Irish Fairy Tales (1892)
Bounty Books/London - ISBN 0-7537-0946-5

Viel Spass beim Schmökern wünscht
waku

[piobair]

So was in der Art hab ich auch.

Irish Sagas and Folk Tales
Eileen O'Faolain

Da drin stehet meiner Ansicht Nach so das wichtigste:

The Children of Lir
All das Zeugs von Cuchulain
All die Geschichten von Finn and the Fianna und Oisin in the Land of the ever Young/ Dermont and Grania
The Black Thief
The Bird of the Golden Land
...und noch viele weitere...

Hat mir super gefallen. Hab ich in einem der National Museums in Dublin gekauft...ich glaube das war in dem nähe Poenix Park und Jameson Distillery...

[Julio_75]

Ähnliches Buch:
Ulick O'Connor: Irish Tales and Sagas. Dublin: Town House. 1996

mit den Legenden
Cuchulain and the Knights of the Red Branch
The Fate of the Children of Lir
Deirdre and the Sons of Usna
St Patrick
The Druid and his Soul
Ossian's Return from Tir na n-Og
The Countess Cathleen O'Shea


Ich bekam das Buch vor rund fünfeinhalb Jahren (ich lebte damals in Limerick) von einer Bekannten zum Geburtstag geschenkt. Kann daher leider nicht sagen, wo die Gute es her hat. Was ich aber sagen kann, ist, dass sich das Buch "leicht weg lesen" lässt und es auch sehr anschaulich geschrieben ist.

Jörg