Folktales of Ireland

Book Overview

Few countries can boast such a plentitude of traditional folktales as Ireland. In 1935, the creation of The Irish Folklore Commission set in motion the first organized efforts of collecting and studying a multitude of folktales, both written as well as those of the Irish oral tradition. The Commission has collected well over a million pages of manuscripts. Folktales of Ireland offers chief archivist Sean O'Sullivan's representation of this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226640000
• ISBN13: 9780226640006
• Release Date: September 1968
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"