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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.

Pot of gold (other title)
Krull, Kathleen. (Author). McPhail, David, 1940- (illustrator.).

Summary:

A collection of stories, folklore, poetry, and songs from Ireland.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0786806257
  • ISBN: 9780786806256
  • ISBN: 0786825391
  • ISBN: 9780786825394
  • Physical Description: 181 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • Publisher: New York : Hyperion Books For Children, 2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Only an Hour Away: The Sea -- Enchanted Cap 5 -- All Day I Hear the Noise of Waters / James Joyce 10 -- Herring Is King / Alfred Percival Graves 11 -- Saint Patrick and the Salmon 13 -- Fate of the Children of Lir 17 -- Irish Lullaby / Alfred Percival Graves 22 -- Not Just Potatoes: The Food -- Wheatlet, Son of Milklet 27 -- Bewitched Butter 31 -- Onions and Herrings / Jonathan Swift 35 -- Potato 37 -- Irish Stew 38 -- Irish Soda Bread 39 -- Marshmallow Crackers 40 -- Alive-Alive-O: The Music -- Musician's Invitation 43 -- Larks / Katherine Tynan 44 -- Strings in the Earth and Air / James Joyce 45 -- Traveling Men of Ballycoo / Eve Bunting 47 -- Cockles and Mussels (Molly Malone) 54 -- Fairies' Dancing Place 57 -- Emerald Isle: The Pride -- Saint Bridget Spreads Her Cloak 61 -- Limerick Lasses / Alfred Percival Graves 63 -- Finn McCool and the Scottish Giant 65 -- Land of Eternal Youth 71 -- Ireland / Dora Sigerson 75 -- Irish Battle Cries 77 -- Irish Blessings 78 -- All Things Bright and Beautiful / Cecil Frances Alexander 80 -- In Love with Words: The Scholars -- Irish Student and His Cat 85 -- Ode to Writers / Arthur O'Shaughnessy 87 -- Where My Books Go / William Butler Yeats 89 -- Man Who Had No Story 91 -- Fields and Farms: The Land -- Wind That Shakes the Barley / Katherine Tynan 97 -- Donald O'Neary and His Neighbors 101 -- Lake Isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats 106 -- My Land / Thomas Davis 108 -- Enchantment: The Fairies -- Fairies in New Ross 113 -- Fairies / William Allingham 114 -- Fair, Brown, and Trembling 119 -- Stolen Child / William Butler Yeats 127 -- To Cure a Child Under a Fairy Spell 131 -- Star-Child / Oscar Wilde 133 -- Who Makes the Fairies' Shoes? The Leprechauns -- Patrick O'Donnell and the Leprechaun 147 -- Leprechaun / William Allingham 152 -- Leprechaun / Robert Dwyer Joyce 154 -- People Never Stop Talking: The Blarney -- What It Is, How to Do It, and the Blarney Stone 159 -- Limericks 161 -- Brian O'Linn 163 -- Folk Riddles 166 -- A Riddle / Jonathan Swift 167 -- Irish Oaths and Curses 168 -- Curse / John Millington Synge 169 -- Ancient Irish Folk Cures 171 -- Philosophies for the Very Young / Oscar Wilde 173.
Subject:
Ireland > Literary collections.
Genre:
Literature.

Available copies

  • 5 of 5 copies available at NC Cardinal.
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