EBOOK CELTIC TALES ***
Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Clare Elliott, Brendan Lane,
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
CELTIC TALES
TOLD TO THE CHILDREN
BY
LOUEY CHISHOLM
WITH PICTURES BY
KATHARINE CAMERON
TO CHRISTOPHER
NOTE
This little book was written after several variants of the Tales had been
read:--'Old Celtic Romances,' by Dr. Joyce; 'Reliquae Celticae,' by Dr.
Cameron; 'The Pursuit after Diarmud O'Duibhne and Grainne the daughter of
Cormac Mac Airt,' by Standish Hayes O'Grady; 'The Three Sorrows of
Story-telling,' by Dr. Douglas Hyde; 'The Laughter of Peterkin,' by Fiona
Macleod, and other translations and retellings.
L.C.
ABOUT THIS BOOK
One of my friends tells me that you, little reader, will not like these
old, old tales; another says they are too sad for you, and yet another
asks what the stories are meant to teach.
Now I, for my part, think you will like these Celtic Tales very much
indeed. It is true they are sad, but you do not always want to be amused.
And I have not told the stories for the sake of anything they may teach,
but because of their sheer beauty, and I expect you to enjoy them as
hundreds and hundreds of Irish and Scottish children have already enjoyed
them--without knowing or wondering why.
LOUEY CHISHOLM.
LIST OF STORIES
The Star-Eyed Deirdre
The Four White Swans
Dermat and Grania
LIST OF PICTURES
THE STAR-EYED DEIRDRE
'Art thou indeed Deirdre?'
Thence ofttimes in the young summer would they sail southward
The Hedge of Spears
THE FOUR WHITE SWANS
As she touched Aed, Fiacra, and Conn, the three brothers were as the maid
They would swim far out into a dim grey wilderness of waters
It was Saint Kemoc
DERMAT AND GRANIA
Dermat
Grania
THE STAR-EYED DEIRDRE
In olden days, when many Kings reigned throughout the Green Island of
Erin, none was greater than the great Concobar.
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