Meeting the Other Crowd: The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland

Meeting the Other Crowd gathers Irish accounts of fairy belief as collected and presented by storyteller Eddie Lenihan, with Carolyn Eve Green. The stories treat the fairies as the Other Crowd, the Good People, the Wee Folk or Them, and reflect both respect and fear surrounding their presence.

The collection ranges from fairy forts, trees and paths to the fairy wind, banshees, changelings and reported abductions. Its accounts include warnings against disturbing protected places, stories of favours repaid or punished, encounters with the coiste bodhar, and traditions concerning Biddy Early. Arranged around who the fairies are, where they are encountered and what follows contact, the book records living Irish folklore alongside older legends.