Stories from The Irish Folklore Centre
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- Early Modern Irish Stories 16th -18th century (1)
- O’Donoghue Folklore (4)
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- The Fairies and the Fairy-Like (3)
- The Fenian Cycle (3)
- The Historical Kings (1)
- The Milesians or Gaels (1)
- The Mythological Kings (1)
- The Saints and the Voyages (1)
- The Tuatha Dé Danann – the Gods (2)
- The Ulster Cycle (1)
- Witchcraft, Sorcery and Giants (1)
Story of the chief of Onaght O Donechu
Three men had to make their way past the gatekeeper to the Underworld. They were in order the Earl of Desmond, his cousin the Lord
The Coming of the Gael
How and why one saga became three with All roads leading to Kerry. A great read by Tighe O’Donoghue/Ross, first published in The Kerry Magazine
The rapparees
Submitted by Tim Donohue Rapparees or raparees (from the Irish ropairí, plural of ropaire, meaning half-pike or pike-wielding person) were Irish guerrilla fighters who operated
The hags of the long teeth
This tale is from Douglas Hyde’s (1890) collection. As described in Chapter 17, the hag is a very ancient character, but in this Roscommon story
The Exile of the Sons of Uisliu or Uisneach
This is the third of ‘The Three Sorrows of Storytelling’, and has a great variety of English titles and story-lines. It is a classic and
The Death of the Sons of Tuireann
This is the first of the ‘Three Sorrows of Storytelling’. The main elements of this story were contained in a number of versions from the