Description: This beautiful keepsake edition of Ancient Legends of Ireland is lavishly illustrated with 22 period illustrations. Lady Jane Wilde is probably best known as Oscar Wilde's mother, she was a formidable writer in her own right. Ireland owes Lady Wild a great debt for collecting and persevering folk-lore that might otherwise have been lost to them.
Review Quotes:
'A work to be welcomed as a valuable addition to the literature of folk-lore and mythology; taken down, for the most part, from oral communications with the peasantry.'--Scotsman.
'Few nations have a folk-lore so rich and imaginative as that of the Irish. Lady Wilde has studied it conscientiously, and is so well acquainted with the origins of her subject, that the perusal of her book is no less instructive than pleasing.'--Morning Post.
'An important contribution to the literature of Ireland and the world's stock of folk-lore.'--Evening Mail.
'Lady Wilde's book will be welcome either to the professed student of Irish antiquity or to the more general reader who finds delight in fascinating folk-tales delightfully recorded.'--Westminster Review.
'Told with power as well as with simplicity ... a very interesting and readable collection of folk-lore.'--Graphic.
'Lady Wilde's book is delightful.... Amongst those best acquainted with Irish folk-lore, legends, and mysteries, we believe few will be found capable of adding many words to pages which could only have been filled by an Irish woman lovingly treating such a subject.'--Vanity Fair.
'Those who care for legendary reading will find in this volume a source of much enjoyment.'--Northern Whig.
'The myths and legends are all of deep interest and value.'--Knowledge.