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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry — Part 4 of 25 (The Fairy Thorn · The Legend of Knockgrafton · A Donegal Fairy · The Brewery of Egg-shells)
Season 7
Episode 4
Published 1 week ago
Description
Four pieces from W. B. Yeats's Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888), read in the order Yeats printed them: "The Fairy Thorn" by Samuel Ferguson (ballad), "The Legend of Knockgrafton" by T. Crofton Croker, and "A Donegal Fairy" by Letitia Maclintock, from the section "The Trooping Fairies"; and "The Brewery of Egg-shells" by T. Crofton Croker, from the section "Changelings."
Intermission: "La Partenza."
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