Folklore: Parnell's Rhyme
We'll wake the Harp of Tara's Hall
With music streams once more
And the birds shall ring with freedom
Throughout green Erin's shore.
Folklore: Faction Fights
There used to be great fights and feuds between parishes and baronies long ago, and Adamstown used to be a great place for that.
Folklore: Time of the Priest-Hunters
It was said that the young fellow turned a Catholic after that.
Folklore: The Whiteboys in Kilmaine
In the time of the White-boys, I often heard my father say that no man of the name of Mullen, Moloney or Staunton was allowed to join or take the oath of the White-boys.
Folklore: Local Heroes - A Sword Fighter
Roche stepped out of a bohreen with a sword in his hand and said, “I defy any two men single handed and no person will dare pass.”
Folklore: The Dead Coach
"That", says Father Lyng to him, "is the headless coach and the devil driving it".
Will-o'-the-Wisp
He wasn’t let into heaven and he wasn’t let into hell, so he is now travelling around the world with his wisp of straw, and that is the person we call ‘Will-o-the-Wisp’.
Folklore: ‘The Court of Crinnawn’
“The power of enchantment is not yet dead, nor banished out of the country yet”
Yuki-Onna - Recorded by Lafcadio Hearn
Even as she screamed, her voice became thin, like a crying of wind; then she melted into a bright white mist that spired to the roof-beams, and shuddered away through the smoke hole…
Trauma, Famine, and Social Decay: A Lecture by Ray Cashman at the Folklore of Ireland Society
To contextualise the importance of such tales and their reflective of Old Ireland’s homely belief system, Professor Cashmond discussed the idea that folklore and other traditional customs are in essence a vernacular social contract created by a community, and deeply personalised to the local level.
The Great Blasket by W.B. Yeats
A few more years and a tradition where Seventeenth Century poets, Mediaeval storytellers, Fathers of the Church, even Neoplatonic philosophers have left their traces in the whole poems of fragmentary thoughts and isolated images will have vanished.
The Fairy Changeling
"I'll tell you how you'll find out whether it is a fairy changeling or not" says he "when you go home tell him that Gort na Pisha is ablaze".