More Legends and Stories of Ireland

Samuel Lover’s second series of Irish tales brings together comic stories, local legends and encounters with the fairy world. It includes the seafaring adventures of Barny O’Reirdon, the rural tale “The Burial of the Tithe”, and “The White Horse of the Peppers”, alongside the chivalric story “Duleek Gate” and the darker “Curse of Kishogue”.

The collection also features “The Fairy Finder”, “The Leprechaun and the Genius”, “The Spanish Boar and the Irish Bull” and “Little Fairly”. Lover draws on the speech, humour and storytelling habits associated with Irish rural communities, combining supernatural traditions with sketches of everyday character and social life. The result is a lively portrait of Irish popular storytelling in the 19th century.