Beside The Fire

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Author: Douglas Hyde ISBN: 1230000022094
Publisher: AppsPublisher Publication: October 3, 2012
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Douglas Hyde
ISBN: 1230000022094
Publisher: AppsPublisher
Publication: October 3, 2012
Imprint:
Language: English

Beside the Fire
by Douglas Hyde

A scholarly collection of Irish folk stories.

"IRISH and Scotch Gaelic folk-stories are, as a living form of literature, by this time pretty nearly a thing of the past. They have been trampled in the common ruin under the feet of the Zeitgeist, happily not before a large harvest has been reaped in Scotland, but, unfortunately, before anything worth mentioning has been done in Ireland to gather in the crop which grew luxuriantly a few years ago. Until quite recently there existed in our midst millions of men and women who, when their day's work was over, sought and found mental recreation in a domain to which few indeed of us who read books are permitted to enter..."

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Beside the Fire
by Douglas Hyde

A scholarly collection of Irish folk stories.

"IRISH and Scotch Gaelic folk-stories are, as a living form of literature, by this time pretty nearly a thing of the past. They have been trampled in the common ruin under the feet of the Zeitgeist, happily not before a large harvest has been reaped in Scotland, but, unfortunately, before anything worth mentioning has been done in Ireland to gather in the crop which grew luxuriantly a few years ago. Until quite recently there existed in our midst millions of men and women who, when their day's work was over, sought and found mental recreation in a domain to which few indeed of us who read books are permitted to enter..."

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