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IRISH FAIRY TALES




[Illustration: IRISH
FAIRY TALES

BY
EDMUND.
LEAMY.

Pictured by.
S.W. Fazain.

M.A. GILL & SON. LTD
PUBLISHERS
DUBLIN. 1906]




M. H. Gill & Son, Ltd.,
Dublin.




CONTENTS
                                                        PAGE
  PREFACE,                                               vii
  NOTE,                                                   xi
  Princess Finola and the Dwarf,                           1
  The House in the Lake,                                  19
  The Little White Cat,                                   41
  The Golden Spears,                                      63
  The Fairy Tree of Dooros,                               82
  The Enchanted Cave,                                    101
  The Huntsman's Son,                                    124
  Notes,                                                 145




PREFACE.


The author of the tales contained in this volume was one of the
brightest and most poetic spirits who have appeared in Ireland in the
last half century. It is needless to say that he was also one of the
most patriotic Irishmen of his generation--patriotic in the highest
and widest sense of that term, loving with an ardent love his country,
its people, its historic traditions, its hills and plains, its lakes
and streams, its raths and mounds. Like all men of his type, he lived
largely in the past, and his fancy revelled much in fairy scenes of
childhood and youth.

The distractions of political life, into which he entered with
characteristic enthusiasm, prevented Edmund Leamy from cultivating his
favourite field