Enlight Butterfly soul In the old days Ireland had excellent schools. What did they go through in them? And even the poorest poor man then possessed more knowledge than any gentleman in our time. As for the priests, they ex... Fairy Tales Irish Fairy Tales
Enlight Pinam, Panam, Mara Fanam In Nuala Mac Cluskey's silly stories you can sometimes find common sense if you dig deeper into them. But since we did not want to dig (we had already gotten to the bottom of more than we would like),... Fairy Tales Irish Fairy Tales
Enlight Field of daisies One sunny day - it was not just a day, but a holiday, the most beloved spring holiday in Ireland - the Annunciation - a young boy was walking along a sunny path along a hedge. His name was Tom. Walkin... Fairy Tales Irish Fairy Tales
Enlight Right hand of Saint Ulten Once upon a time, God gifted Saint Ulten with supernatural power. And only one person in all of Ireland knew the power of Saint Ulten. It was Ulten himself. A great disaster struck Ireland in the fort... Fairy Tales Irish Fairy Tales
Enlight Lazy beauty and her aunts Once upon a time there lived a poor widow, and she had a daughter - beautiful as a clear day, but very lazy. And then one fine morning, when things were going from bad to worse, the poor widow had jus... Fairy Tales Irish Fairy Tales
Enlight The Honorable Lord Mayor and Most Honorable Innkeeper In the tip of the little finger of a simple poor man from the Donegal Mountains, who lived in times long past, there was more wisdom than most of our most famous lawyers or philosophers now have. This... Fairy Tales Irish Fairy Tales
Enlight Arrogant Princess There once lived a very worthy king in the world, and he had a beautiful daughter, you won’t find another like her. But the proud woman is worse than Lucifer: she did not agree to choose a single king... Fairy Tales Irish Fairy Tales
Enlight Bad place Some people have probably heard about the famous adventures of Daniel O Rourke, but there are few who know that the reason for all his misadventures above land and under water was only one thing: he f... Fairy Tales Irish Fairy Tales
Enlight Thief's Apprentice Ancient tales neglect petty morals. For example, in “The Thief’s Apprentice” the narrator proudly portrays a rogue and a deceiver, but both the masters of his craft and the young listeners dote on him... Fairy Tales Irish Fairy Tales
Enlight The poet Maclonin and the plowman from Dal Casa It so happened that when the ninth-century poet Maclonin was traveling in Galway, he met a plowman from Dal Cas in Clare. He returned to his native place, having received a cow and a cloak as a reward... Fairy Tales Irish Fairy Tales
Enlight Gob's wife It would be simply a shame, having told you, as I did recently, about the great Gob, not to return to him again to prove to you: no matter how wise he was, he still turned out to be no smarter than hi... Fairy Tales Irish Fairy Tales
Enlight Mangret scientists Here is another example of the ingenuity of the shanakha. I have already told you several stories about the wisdom of Dark Patrick, although somewhat hastily. But I will give one story about the amazi... Fairy Tales Irish Fairy Tales
