Publisher's Synopsis
Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
Illustrator: John Dickson Batten
- Connla and the fairy maiden
- Guleesh
- The field of Boliauns
- The horned women
- Conall Yellowclaw
- Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary
- The shepherd of Myddvai
- The sprightly tailor
- The story of Deirdre
- Munachar and Manachar
- Gold-tree and silver-tree
- King O'Toole and his goose
- The wooing of Olwen
- Jack and his comrades
- The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire
- The story-teller at fault
- The sea-maiden
- A legend of Knockmany
- Fair, brown, and trembling
- Jack and his master
- Beth Gellert
- The tale of Ivan
- Andrew Coffey
- The battle of the birds
- Brewery of eggshells
- The lad with the goat-skin.
Joseph Jacobs (29 August 1854 - 30 January 1916) was an Australian folklorist, translator, literary critic, social scientist, historian and writer of English literature who became a notable collector and publisher of English folklore.
John Dickson Batten (8 October 1860 - 5 August 1932), born in Plymouth, Devon, was an English painter of figures in oils, tempera and fresco and a book illustrator and printmaker. He was an active member of the Society of Painters in Tempera, with his wife Mary Batten, a gilder.
