Irish Wonders by D.R. McAnally
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Title: Irish Wonders
Author: D. R. McAnally, Jr.
Release Date: October 7, 2006 [Ebook #19486]
Language: English
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[Illustration: "GOD SAVE YER HOLINESS." Frontispiece.]
"GOD SAVE YER HOLINESS." Frontispiece.
Irish Wonders
by D. R. McAnally, Jr.
Edition 1, (October 7, 2006)
THE GHOSTS, GIANTS, POOKAS, DEMONS, LEPRECHAWNS, BANSHEES, FAIRIES, WITCHES, WIDOWS, OLD MAIDS, AND OTHER MARVELS OF THE EMERALD ISLE
Popular Tales as told by the People
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IN MEMORY OF YEARS OF FRIENDSHIP,
This Volume
IS INSCRIBED TO
MR. JOSEPH B. McCULLAGH,
AS A MODEST TRIBUTE OF
PERSONAL RESPECT.
PREFACE.
The wonderful imaginative power of the Celtic mind is never more strikingly displayed than in the legends and fanciful tales which people of the humbler wa