Beside the Fire Author:Douglas Hyde "IRISH and 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 in Scotland, but, unfortunately, before anything worth mentioning has been done in Ireland to gat... more »her 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 day's work was over, sought and found mental recreation in a domain to which few indeed of us who read books are permitted to enter..."ContentsPrefacePostscript (by Alfred Nutt)DedicationThe Tailor and the Three Beasts BranThe King of Ireland's SonThe Alp-LuachraPaudyeen O'Kelly and the WeaselLeeam O'Rooney's BurialGuleesh na Guss DhuThe Well of D'Yerree-In-DowanThe Court of CrinnawnNeil O'CarreeTrunk-Without-HeadThe Hags of the Long TeethWilliam of the TreeThe Old Crow & The Young CrowRiddles« less