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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1877Original Publisher: G. BellSubjects: Ballads, EnglishLiterary Collections / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / PoetryMusic / Genres ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1871Original Publisher: J. ... Read more

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Publisher: London, C. Griffin and Company, LimitedPublication date: 1917Subjects: Marine meteorologyNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Laurence Bloomfield - Or, Rich And Poor In Ireland - By William Allingham - 1863 - This is a picture in verse of Irish rural life in the third quarter of one century, written with a truth of detail naturally flowing from intinlate knowledge, not of one part of Irelancl merely, nor of one class or set of its inhabitants. It is too impartial for most readers, whether Irish or English, for few are not party-men on Irish questions but take the statement, dear readers, for what it is worth, of one who honestly summarizes many observations and thoughts. A man who was neither English nor Irish, Ivan Tourganief, after reading the book, said to a friend of the author who may be forgiven for recalling the words, I never understood Ireland before Young Laurence Bloomfield, inheritor of an Irish estate, and looking in his day into Irish Difficulties, thought the immediately tangible and remecliable part of them to be connected with The Land Qzestion, and for his own small part applied himself to this............ ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:EAMBLE THE FOUBTEENTH.IN DEVON AND COBNWALL.WEEE I forced to choose an English county, to keep within its bounds for say the next seven years, it should be Devon, I think; Devon of orchards and woods, rich vales and swelling hills, navigable rivers and swift brooks; wild Dartmoor, its centre-piece, heath-purpled, rock-crowned; two seas fringed with cliff and cove, sand and foliage; the gray pinnacles of Exeter; the glorious harbour of Plymouth;—Devon, moreover, mother of as comely, kindly and contented a brood of mortals as could be found elsewhere perhaps on any equal space of the terrestrial globe.Exeter Cathedral has been for some years at the mercy of that terrible knight Sir Gilbert, and the bloom of antiquity is being carefully scraped off; but approaching from the north you can still see venerable gray walls and window- traceries, towers, buttresses, pinnacles, time-enriched. Can it be needful to repeat once more the true doctrine as to old buildings that are worth keeping?—Preserve, with prompt and constant care, all you can, even to the encrusting lichen: shudder at the word Eestore! Into the old High Street a new wide opening has just been made from the south, otherwise it looks the same as when I first saw it eight years ago, Elizabethan picturesque porch of the Guildhall bestraddling the pavement with dwarf pillars, and old bay-windowed gables rising aloft over modern shops.PLYMOUTH. 45Sloping up a long ridge it recalls here and there the famous Old Town of Edinburgh, and certain of the back lanes are almost as picturesque and odoriferous as the wynds of that northern city.On the wings of Steam I fled along the fringe of Dartmoor, glancing down wooded valley and up rocky fell, by Okehampton and Tavistoek, Ivybridge, and Plympton, and so, skirting a ... ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: George Routledge ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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THIS IS THE ORIGINAL COPYWRIGHT 1902/1903 HARDCOVER PUBLISHED BY McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. (NEW YORK) (MCMIII) (1903)--THE TRUE FIRST EDITION OF THE STORIES OF DARBY O'GILL--WHEN THE AUTHOR'S NAME WAS HERMINIE TEMPLETON (BEFORE SHE BECAME HERMINIE TEMPLETON KAVANAGH). 294 PAGES PLUS 11 MORE PAGES OF ADS FOR OTHER BOOKS PUBLISHED BY McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. CONTENTS: THE FAIRIES (POEM BY WILLIAM ALLINGHAM), FOREWORD, DARBY O'GILL AND THE GOOD PEOPLE (P.1-28), DARBY O'GILL AND THE LEPRECHAUN (P.29-60), THE CONVARSION OF FATHER CASSIDY (P.61-88), HOW THE FAIRIES CAME TO IRELAND (P.89-110), THE ADVENTURES OF KING BRIAN CONNORS (THE KING AND THE OMADHAUN, THE COUPLE WITHOUT CHILDHER, THE LUCK OF THE MULLIGANS) (P.111-174), THE BANSHEE'S COMB (THE DIPLOMACY OF BRIDGET, THE BANSHEE'S HALLOWEEN, THE GHOSTS AT CHARTRE'S MILL, THE COSTA BOWER) (P.175-294). ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

This Digital Book Incomplete
This book only includes 3 of the Darby O'Gill stories--it is missing several others that are included in the public domain edition.

Outstanding Fairy Tales
This excellent book is a wonderful compendium of irish tales with the true flavor and rhythm of how they are told without a cloying cloak of "everything's perfect in fairy land." I highly recommend it. Claudia Newcorn - author of the award-winning fantasy, Crossover Crossover: Krisálys Chronicles of Féyree

A forgotten treasure
It took me many years of searching to find my 1906 edition of Herminie Templeton's (before she married Judge Kavanagh) adventures of that daring Tipperary man named Darby O'Gill among the Fairies of Sleive-na-mon. Formany years after I guarded that volume as one of my most precious treasures. Now thanks to the kind folks at One Faithful Harp Press, I canhave a copy that I feel comfortable lending to my friends or even giving to my boys to read.

"Darby O'Gill & the Good People"(along with "Ashes of Old Wishes" which was published more than20 years later) is the basis for the 1959 Disney film "Darby O'Gilland the Little People" but it is so much richer than that charmingchildren's film. It is a collection of fairy stories to be sure, but evenmore it is a celebration of Catholic Ireland, and the goodness and moralityof the turn of the century Irish peasant.

If you can muster the accent, Iurge you to read this book to your children aloud.They will never forgetit. ... Read more