Description: A Celtic MiscellanyPreface Maps: (i) Ireland (ii) Wales Hero-Tale and Adventure Note 1. How C Chulainn Got His Name 2. C Chulainn and the Charioteer 3. The Killing of Edarcomhol 4. C Chulainn''s Meeting with Findabhair 5. Ceithern''s Blood-transfusion and Death 6. C Chulainn in the Valley of the Deaf 7. The Story of Deirdre 8. The Death of Conchobhar 9. How Celtchar Killed the "Brown Mouse" 10. How Cobhthach Contrived his Brother''s Death 11. The Recognition of Ulysses Nature Note 12. May-time 13. The Coming of Winter 14. Winter Cold 15. Winter 16. The Four Seasons 17. A Storm at Sea 18. The Hermit''s Hut 19. Arran 20. The Hill of Howth 21. Deirdre Remembers a Scottish Glen 22. The Ivied Tree-Top 23. Suibhne the Wild Man in the Forest 24. Suibhne Praises the Garbh 25. To May and January 26. The Birch-wood Bower 27. The Snow 28. The Mist 29. The Stars 30. The Burial of the Poet, Dead for Love 31. The Poet''s Arbour in the Birch-wood 32. To a Birch-tree Cut Down, and Set Up in the Llanidloes for a Maypole 33. The Mansion of the Woods 34. To the Sun 35. To the New Moon 36. To the Moon 37. The Mountain Stream 38. Winter and Summer Love Note 39. The Dream of Oenghus 40. How Trystan Won Esylt 41. Secret Love 42. The Jealous Husband 43. The Seagull 44. In Defence of Women 45. To Her Hair 46. Reconciliation 47. The Lover''s Doubts 48. Do Not Torment Me, Woman 49. The Hidden Love 50. Take Those Lips Away 51. Trust No Man 52. Happy for You, Blind Man! 53. Hate Goes Just as Far as Love 54. The Blackthorn Pin 55. The Indifferent Mistress 56. Parted Lovers 57. The Message of the Eyes 58. She''s the White Flower of the Blackberry 59. How Glad Are the Small Birds 60. Young Lad of the Braided Hair 61. At the Fiddlers'' 62. He Whose Hand and Eye Are Gentle 63. The Black-haired Lad 64. The Laundress''s Sweetheart 65. Mary, My Darling 66. Kate of Garnavilla 67. The Ballad of Marivonnik 68. Fhir a'' Bhta 69. The Slender Lad Epigram Note 70. The Wayside Fountain 71. The Blackbird''s Song 72. The Hermit Blackbird 73. The Spring 74. Heather Flowers 75. Mountain Lakes 76. Sliabh gCua 77. Merioneth 78. The Pole Star 79. Night 80. Night and Morning 81. The Wind 82. The Storm 83. Thick Snow 84. The Snowfall 85. Flood-tide 86. Autumn 87. Winter Has Come 88. Women''s Tongues 89. Women''s Hats 90. The Proud Lady 91. The Twig and the Root 92. Love Gives Wings 93. Her Light Step 94. Like the Birch-tree 95. Lovelier than the Sun 96. Red and White Roses 97. Promiscuity 98. Dream and Reality 99. The End of the Day 100. The Boorish Patron 101. Finn''s Generosity 102. Weariness of Body and Weariness of Spirit 103. How Happy Are the Wild Birds 104. Quando Ver Venit Meum? 105. Sorrow 106. Woe Is Me that I Ever Was Born 107. Old Age Comes not Alone 108. Old Age and Death 109. Life''s Uncertainty 110. Thoughts of Death 111. Stealthy Death 112. Not Divided in Death 113. On the Tomb 114. The Lover''s Grave 115. For a Grave at Trawsfynydd 116. Epitaph on a Little Girl 117. Everyman''s Epitaph 118. On Two Shipwrecked Sailors 119. The Praises of God 120. Christ Before Pilate 121. A Vain Pilgrimage 122. The Monk''s Mistress 123. On Mael Mhuru the Poet 124. Dinas Bran 125. Imperial Caesar Dead and Turned to Clay 126. The Court of Ifor Hael "Celtic Magic" Note 127. The Adventure of Conle 128. The Story of Lludd and Llefelys 129. Ruadh in the Land Under the Wave 130. The Creation of Blodeuwedd 131. The Magic Gaming-board 132. From The Voyage of Mael Din 133. The Magic Pigs of Cruachu 134. The Black and White Sheep and the Blazing Tree 135. From The Voyage of the U Chorra 136. The Three Werewolves from the Cave of Cruacha 137. How the Fenians Found the Fairy Hill 138. The Air Ship 139. The Burial of the Priest''s Concubine 140. Drowned Giantesses Description Note 141. Froech in the Dark Pool 142. Froech and the Fairy Women 143. Midhir''s Invitation to the Earthly Paradise 144. The Islands of the Earthly Paradise 145. The Arrival at the Earthly Paradise 146. Morning Sun 147. Sunshine Through the Window 148. The Mowers 149. The White Lake of Carra 150. Iubhdhn''s Fairy House 151. Uncomfortable Lodgings 152. The Cliff of Alternan 153. dan the Fairy 154. Olwen 155. Gruffudd ap Cynan''s Wife 156. The Reign of Gruffudd ap Cynan 157. From The Misty Corrie 158. From The Song of Summer 159. You Are Whiter than the Swan 160. At the Battle of Magh Mucraimhe 161. The Battle of Ventry 162. The Monster of Scattery Island 163. St. Brendan''s Vision of Hell 164. The Homeward Voyage 165. The Troublesome Gillie Humour and Satire Note 166. A Cursed Undutiful Son-in-law 167. Bricriu''s Practical Joke 168. Culhwch''s Arrival at the Court of King Arthur 169. Some of King Arthur''s Wonderful Men 170. "Eating a Mouse Includes Its Tail" 171. The Guest House at the Monastery of Cork 172. The Elders of the End of the World 173. From the Early Welsh Laws 174. The Vanity of Women 175. The Girls of Llanbadarn 176. A Night at an Inn 177. The Magpie''s Advice 178. The Poet and the Grey Friar 179. My Purse, Gramercy to You for This! 180. Welsh Harper and English Bagpiper 181. The Letter of O''Neill to Sir John McCoughleyn 182. "Civil Irish" and "Wild Irish" 183. The Student''s Life 184. A Smart Young Woman 185. The Midwives and the Father 186. Where Are You Going to, my Pretty Maid? 187. Egan O''Rahilly and the Minister 188. On the Murder of David Gleeson, Bailiff Bardic Poetry Note 189. Elegy on Llywelyn ap Gruffudd 190. The Battle of Tal Moelfre 191. The Killing of Hywel ab Owein 192. Maguire and MacDermot 193. The Fertile Lands of Cathal Conchobhair 194. Prosperity in the Time of Tadhg Conchobhair 195. The Praise of Fermanagh 196. The Harp of Cnoc Chosgair 197. From the Lament for the Four Macdonalds 198. To the Earl of Argyll before the Battle of Flodden 199. Who Will Buy a Poem? 200. On the Death of William Gould 201. To Arouse the Gael in Support of Prince Charles Elegy Note 202. From the Gododdin 203. From the Elegy on Cynddylan 204. Eimher''s Keen over C Chulainn 205. The Wild Man of the Woods 206. The Wild Man''s Life 207. The Wild Man Comes to the Monastery 208. Deirdre''s Farewell to Scotland 209. Elegy on Druim nDen 210. Senility 211. Elegy on Gruffydd ab Addaf ap Dafydd 212. The Vision 213. The Unquiet Grave 214. Ty''n y Coed 215. Longing 216. The Braes of Glen Broom 217. Elegy on the Ruins of Timoleague Abbey 218. Lament for Reilly 219. Elegy for His Daughter Ellen 220. The Death of Miri 221. The Lament for Art O''Leary Religion Note 222. St. Columba''s Island Heritage 223. The Wish of Manchn of Liath 224. The Hermit 225. St. Brendan and the Harper 226. St. Ide''s Wish 227. I Should Like to Have a Great Ale-Feast 228. The Little Boys Who Went to Heaven 229. A Ghost Story 230. The Resurrection of Bresal Son of Diarmaid 231. From The Vision of Adhamhnn 232. The Tree of Life 233. How St. Scoithin Got His Name 234. St. Mael Anfaidh and the Bird''s Lament for St. Mo Lua 235. St. Columba''s Nettle Broth 236. Mo Chua''s Riches 237. Repentance before Death 238. Damnation 239. Christ''s Bounties 240. The Murder of Abel 241. St. Meriasek Arrives in Cornwall 242. The Best and Worst Nail in the Ark 243. A Prayer to the Virgin 244. A Charm with Yarrow Notes Pronouncing Index of Names

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