A pot o' gold a treasury of Irish stories, poetry, folklore, and (of course) blarney
A collection of stories, folklore, poetry, and songs from Ireland.
| Main Author: | Krull, Kathleen. |
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| Other Authors: | McPhail, David, 1940- |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Disney/Hyperion Books,
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st Disney/Hyperion pbk. ed. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Only an hour away: Sea: Enchanted cap
- All day I hear the noise of waters / James Joyce
- Herring is king / Alfred Percival Graves
- Saint Patrick and the salmon
- Fate of the children of Lir
- Irish lullaby / Alfred Percival Graves
- Not just potatoes: Food: Wheatlet, son of Milklet
- Bewitched butter
- Onions and herrings / Jonathan Swift
- Potato
- Irish stew
- Irish soda bread
- Marshmallow crackers
- Alive-alive-o: Music: Musician's invitation
- Larks / Katherine Tynan
- Strings in the earth and air / James Joyce
- Traveling men of Ballycoo / Eve Bunting
- Cockles and mussels (Molly Malone)
- Fairies' dancing place
- Emerald Isle: Pride: Saint Bridget spreads her cloak
- Limerick lasses / Alfred Percival Graves
- Finn McCool and the Scottish giant
- Land of eternal youth
- Ireland / Dora Sigerson
- Irish battle cries
- Irish blessings
- All things bright and beautiful / Cecil Frances Alexander
- In love with words: Scholars: Irish student and his cat
- Ode to writers / Arthur O'Shaughnessy
- Where my books go / William Butler Yeats
- Man who had no story
- Fields and farms: Land: Wind that shakes the barley / Katherine Tynan
- Donald O'Neary and his neighbors
- Lake Isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats
- My land / Thomas Davis
- Enchantment: Fairies: Fairies in New Ross
- Fairies / William Allingham
- Fair, brown, and trembling
- Stolen child / William Butler Yeats
- To cure a child under a fairy spell
- Star-child / Oscar Wilde
- Who makes the fairies' shoes?: Leprechauns: Patrick O'Donnell and the leprechaun
- Leprechaun / William Allingham
- Leprechaun / Robert Dwyer Joyce
- People never stop talking: Blarney: What it is, how to do it, and the blarney stone
- Limericks
- Brian O'Linn
- Folk riddles
- Riddle / Jonathan Swift
- Irish oats and curses
- Curse / John Millington Synge
- Ancient Irish folk cures
- Philosophies for the very young / Oscar Wilde
- Source notes
- Acknowledgements.