Beside the Fire: A Collection of Irish Gaelic Folk Stories - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1428612629 ISBN 13 : 9781428612624

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Beside The Fire: A Collection Of Irish Gaelic Folk Stories is a book compiled by Douglas Hyde, an Irish scholar, linguist, and politician. The book contains a collection of traditional Irish Gaelic folk stories, which have been passed down through generations of Irish people. The stories in this book are rich in Irish culture and folklore and provide a fascinating insight into the beliefs and traditions of the Irish people. The book is divided into different sections, each containing stories that revolve around a specific theme or topic. Some of the themes covered in the book include fairies, ghosts, heroes, and legends. Each story is accompanied by an introduction, which provides context and background information about the story. The stories in Beside The Fire are written in a simple and easy-to-understand language, making them accessible to readers of all ages. The book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in Irish culture, folklore, and mythology. It is also a great way to introduce children to the rich world of Irish storytelling. Overall, Beside The Fire: A Collection Of Irish Gaelic Folk Stories is a delightful read that will transport readers to a magical world of fairies, legends, and heroes. The book is a must-read for anyone who wants to discover the fascinating world of Irish folklore and mythology.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

About the Author:

"Douglas Hyde (Irish: Dubhghlas de hyde) (17 January 1860 - 12 July 1949) was an Anglo-Irish scholar of the Irish language who served as the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945. He founded the Gaelic League, one of the most influential cultural organisations in Ireland.

Hyde was born at Longford House in Castlerea in County Roscommon, while his mother was on a short visit there. His father, Arthur Hyde, was Church of Ireland rector of Kilmactranny, County Sligo from 1852 to 1867, and it was here that Hyde spent his early years. In 1867, his father was appointed prebendary and rector of Tibohine, and the family moved to neighbouring Frenchpark, in County Roscommon. While a young man he became fascinated with hearing the old people in the locality speak the Irish language. He was influenced in particular by the gameskeeper Seamus Hart and the wife of his friend, Mrs Connolly. He was crushed when Seamus Hart died (Douglas was 14) and his interest in the Irish language, which was the first language he began to study in any detail, and which was his own undertaking, flagged for a while. However, he visited Dublin a number of times and realised that there were groups of people, just like him, interested in Irish, a language looked down on at the time by many and seen as backward and old-fashioned.

Rejecting family pressure that like past generations of Hydes he follow a career in the Church, Hyde instead became an academic. He entered Trinity College, Dublin where he became fluent in French, Latin, German, Greek and Hebrew. His passion for Irish, already a language in severe decline, led him to found the Gaelic League, or in Irish, Conradh na Gaeilge, in the hope of saving it from extinction." (Quote from wikipedia.org)

Présentation de l'éditeur

Scotch Gaelic folk-stories are, as a living form of literature, by this time pretty nearly a thing of the past. They have been trampled in the common ruin under the feet of the Zeitgeist, happily not before a large harvest has been reaped inS cotland, but, unfortunately, before anything worth mentioning has been done in I reland to gather in the crop which grew luxuriantly a few years ago. Until quite recently there existed in our midst millions of men and women who, when their days work was over, sought and found mental recreation in a domain to which few indeed of us who read books are permitted to enter. Man, all the world over, when he is tired of the actualities of life, seeks to unbend his mind with the creations of fancy. We who can read betake ourselves to our favourite novelist, and as we peruse his fictions, we can almost see our author erasing this, heightening that, and laying on such-and-such a touch for effect. His book is the product of his individual brain, and some of us or of our contemporaries have been present at its genesis.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1428612629
• ISBN 13: 9781428612624
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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