Ireland · Folktales and oral traditions
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Ireland
- Tales
- 2
- Dated records
- 3
- Tales linked to multiple countries
- 0
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Morraha, on the Ireland page, begins with a small green boat coming ashore. Its passenger takes a table, chairs and cards from his pocket. In the fourth game, a task takes the place of a prize. The Atlas opens the scene in Joseph Jacobs’s 1895 collection.
Tales in the Atlas
Morraha
1895 · Joseph Jacobs · More Celtic Fairy Tales · Morraha
The Children of Lir
1883 · Oidhe Chloinne Lir · National Library of Ireland
c. 1924 · Pádraic Ó Conaire · Trí truaighe na sgéalaidheachta
Tales found across countries
No tales linked to multiple countries are listed for this country yet.