AUTHORITIES ON IRISH FOLKLORE
roker's Legends of the South of Ireland; Lady Wilde's Ancient Legends of Ireland, and Ancient Charms; Sir William Wilde's Irish Popular Superstitions; McAnally's Irish Wonders; Irish Folklore, by Lageniensis (Father O'Hanlan); Curtins's Myths and Folklore of Ireland; Douglas Hyde's Beside the Fire and his Leabhar Sgeulaigheachta; Patrick Kennedy's Legendary Fictions of the Irish Peasantry, his Banks of the Boro, his Evenings on the Duffrey, and his Legends of Mount Leinster; the chap-books, Royal Fairy Tales, and Tales of the Fairies. There is also much folklore in Carleton's Traits and Stories; in Lover's Legends and Stories of the Irish Peasantry; in Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall's Ireland; in Lady Chatterton's Rambles in the South of Ireland; in Gerald Griffen's Tales of a Jury Room in particular, and in his other books in general. It would repay the trouble if some Irish magazine would select from his works the stray legends and scraps of fairy belief. There is much in the Collegians. There is also folklore in the chap-book Hibernian Tales, and a Banshee story or two will be found in Miss Lefanu's Memoirs of my Grandmother, and in Barrington's Recollections. There are also stories in Donovan's introduction to the Four Masters. The best articles are those in the Dublin and London Magazine ("The Fairy Greyhound" is from this collection) for 1827 and 1829, about a dozen in all, and David Fitzgerald's various contributions to the Review Celtique in our own day, and Miss M'Clintock's articles in the Dublin University Magazine for 1878. There are good articles also in the Dublin University Magazine for 1839, and much Irish folklore is within the pages of the Folklore Journal and the Folklore Record, and in the proceedings of the Kilkenny Archæological Society. The Penny Journal, the Newry Magazine, Duffy's Sixpenny Magazine, and the Hibernian Magazine, are also worth a search by any Irish writer on the look-out for subjects for song or ballad. My own articles in the Scots Observer and National Observer give many gatherings from the little-reaped Connaught fields. I repeat this list of authorities from my Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry,—a compilation from some of the sources mentioned,—bringing it down to date and making one or two corrections. The reader who would know Irish tradition should read these books above all others—Lady Wilde's Ancient Legends, Douglas Hyde's Beside the Fire, and a book not mentioned in the foregoing list, for it deals with the bardic rather than the folk literature, Standish O'Grady's History of Ireland, Heroic Period—perhaps the most imaginative book written on any Irish subject in recent decades.
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