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Irish Wonders

Irish Wonders by D. R. McAnally, Jr.


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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

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