A pot o' gold : a treasury of Irish stories, poetry, folklore, and (of course) blarney / selected and adapted by Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by David McPhail.
Only an hour away: Sea: Enchanted cap -- All day I hear the noise of waters / James Joyce -- Herring is king / Alfred Percival Graves -- Saint Patrick and the salmon -- Fate of the children of Lir -- Irish lullaby / Alfred Percival Graves -- Not just potatoes: Food: Wheatlet, son of Milklet -- Bewitched butter -- Onions and herrings / Jonathan Swift -- Potato -- Irish stew -- Irish soda bread -- Marshmallow crackers -- Alive-alive-o: Music: Musician's invitation -- Larks / Katherine Tynan -- Strings in the earth and air / James Joyce -- Traveling men of Ballycoo / Eve Bunting -- Cockles and mussels (Molly Malone) -- Fairies' dancing place -- Emerald Isle: Pride: Saint Bridget spreads her cloak -- Limerick lasses / Alfred Percival Graves -- Finn McCool and the Scottish giant -- Land of eternal youth -- Ireland / Dora Sigerson -- Irish battle cries -- Irish blessings -- All things bright and beautiful / Cecil Frances Alexander -- In love with words: Scholars: Irish student and his cat -- Ode to writers / Arthur O'Shaughnessy -- Where my books go / William Butler Yeats -- Man who had no story -- Fields and farms: Land: Wind that shakes the barley / Katherine Tynan -- Donald O'Neary and his neighbors -- Lake Isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats -- My land / Thomas Davis -- Enchantment: Fairies: Fairies in New Ross -- Fairies / William Allingham -- Fair, brown, and trembling -- Stolen child / William Butler Yeats -- To cure a child under a fairy spell -- Star-child / Oscar Wilde -- Who makes the fairies' shoes?: Leprechauns: Patrick O'Donnell and the leprechaun -- Leprechaun / William Allingham -- Leprechaun / Robert Dwyer Joyce -- People never stop talking: Blarney: What it is, how to do it, and the blarney stone -- Limericks -- Brian O'Linn -- Folk riddles -- Riddle / Jonathan Swift -- Irish oats and curses -- Curse / John Millington Synge -- Ancient Irish folk cures -- Philosophies for the very young / Oscar Wilde -- Source notes -- Acknowledgements.
Summary:
A collection of stories, folklore, poetry, and songs from Ireland.
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