Irish Fairy Tales: Tuan mac Cairill, Fionn and the Fianna
James Stephens
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 28 full-page plates by William Watson, John Crome and Erskine Nicol. Ten stories from the Fenian cycle told by an Irish poet: Fionn's boyhood, the salmon of knowledge, Tuan mac Cairill who lived as a stag and a salmon and remembered it, and the long argument between Ireland and its own gods. Stephens wrote them in 1920, out of the Middle Irish, in a prose that keeps the jokes the manuscripts contain. His Fionn is young, greedy and easily bored, which is closer to the sources than the noble version. Twenty-eight plates by painters including Francis Danby and John MacWhirter carry the Irish landscape of glen, woodland and sea that these tales grew from.
Complete and unabridged, with 28 full-page plates by William Watson, John Crome and Erskine Nicol. Ten stories from the Fenian cycle told by an Irish poet: Fionn's boyhood, the salmon of knowledge, Tuan mac Cairill who lived as a stag and a salmon and remembered it, and the long argument between ...
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James Stephens (1882–1950) was a Dublin solicitor's clerk found by AE and taken into the Irish revival. He wrote The Crock of Gold, retold the old Irish stories in a voice of his own, and gave famous radio talks in the last years of his life.
James Stephens (1882–1950) was a Dublin solicitor's clerk found by AE and taken into the Irish revival. He wrote The Crock of Gold, retold the old Irish stories in a voice of his own, and gave famous radio talks in the last years of his life.
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