Chimney Corners, Merry Tales of Irish Folk Lore

How about a fine Irish fairytale?

Today's FamilyFirst site celebrates the art of the Irish bedtime story. It's called The Baldwin Project's In Chimney Corners (by Seumas MacManus).

Here's the mission of this online book presentation:

This text was prepared by Lisa Ripperton, using as copytext, In Chimney Corners, Merry Tales of Irish Folk Lore, by Seumas MacManus, New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. Since this book was first published before 1923, it is in the public domain in the United States. By U.S. law, it entered the public domain 75 years after its first publication. If you Customize your Preferences you can control the way the display is formatted and the contents that are included in each section. For all books you can control whether banners and footers are displayed and where navigation is placed. For this book you can also control the display of page numbers and images.

The tales are, in a word, delightful.

Read about the widow's daughter, who was quite lazy, and married a prince who intended to keep her that way.

Or peruse the tale of the old hag of the forest, and her outwitting by a prince.

And check out Neil a-Mughan's account of bein' “tuk.”

The stories are as entertaining to adults as to children. And I'm sure Seumas MacManus would be proud to know that his tales live on thanks to the internet.

Have fun, and sleep well!

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