What is your best defense against a phosphorescent land sheerie? Can you really find contentment with a wealthy merrow wife? The answers are disclosed at last in A Field Guide to Irish Fairies, the first and only such guide available. Expertly researched and compiled by an authority on the subject, with detailed illustrations to help wayfarers identify the 13 major varieties of these elusive fairy folk of the Emerald Isle, this pocket-size volume is indispensible both in the field and back in the (relative) safety of hearth and home. With information on habitat, history, and fairy customs at their fingertips, readers will be well prepared for encounters with saucy leprechauns, kindly grogochs, and even headless dullahans. A word to the wise: Take it along, or take your chances!
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Bob Curran lives in Ireland and is an expert on Irish fairies. He is schooled in the risks and rewards of rambles in the countryside.
Andrew Whitson is Ireland's foremost illustrator of supernatural beings.
Andrew Whitson is Ireland's foremost illustrator of supernatural beings.
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42 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
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Just Fabulous,
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This review is from: A Field Guide to Irish Fairies (Hardcover)
This little book gets right to the meat of Irish folklore and the various sorts of fey. Includes the mythological variance between tales from differing counties and tries to reconcile the countless spelling/name variations and the differing significance attached to various elementals. The accounts and tales are both fanciful and straightforward and carry none of that phony, fadish, fluffy bunny fru fru that poisons serious examination and/or gentle celebration of our Good Neighbours.
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Great Introduction to Irish Fairies,
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This book introduces several types of Irish fairies: what they look like, their character, where they are located and how to avoid or deal with them should you encounter them. I have enjoyed reading it and have learned a lot, and so have my two sons (ages 6 and 12) and their friends. We used this book as a reference for a craft at the Eugene Irish Festival where people learned about fairies and those who participated loved it.
Highly recommended to anyone at the beginning level of learning about Irish Fairies. Great artwork, too.
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Celtic Faires at their best,
By Doctor Saturday (Belfast) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Field Guide to Irish Fairies (Hardcover)
This is a beautiful little book. It has the great authority on celtic mythology Bob Curran sharing his knowledge of Fairy lore from Ireland. Not in a whimsical as is usual manner with faires but in a knowledgeable yet informative manner. There are also the excellent illustrations by Andrew Whitson. On a personal note upon reading this book mention was made of a great Uncle of mine Frank Craig. My mother filled us with stories about Frank as we grew up. Besides being one of the last native Irish speakers on Rathlin Island he had a great head filled with folklore, some of it he told to scare my mother and her siblings witless when they were small children. He would also tell them that there were no fairies now. He had heard them leave long ago and travel west to beyond the sunset. Sadly he died in 1973 but it was so good to read something about his stories in this book.So on a personal and on a general level I highly recommend this book.
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The grogoch is well-known throughout north Antrim, Rathlin Island and parts of Donegal. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The grogoch is well-known throughout north Antrim, Rathlin Island and parts of Donegal. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Grey Man, Crom Dubh New!
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- Garden Witchery: Magick from the Ground Up by Ellen Dugan in Back Matter
- The Ancient Art of Faery Magick by D.J. Conway in Back Matter
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