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Jeremiah Curtin (1835–1906)

Author of Celtic Fairy Tales

42+ Works 2,252 Members 17 Reviews

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Includes the names: Jeremiah Curtin, Jeremiah Curtain, Theodore (Fore Jeremiah (Author) Roosevelt Curtin, Jeremiah Curtin, 1835-1906 ***NOTE: THIS IS A "PRINT ON DEMAND" VERSION FROM THE ORIGINAL BOOK***

Image credit: Curtin in December 1905

Works by Jeremiah Curtin

Celtic Fairy Tales (1892) 1,234 copies
Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland (1890) 393 copies
More Celtic Fairy Tales (1894) 158 copies
Irish fairy tales (1993) 94 copies
The Mongols: A History (1908) 83 copies
Irish Tales of the Fairies and the Ghost World (1895) 72 copies
Creation Myths of America (1898) — Author — 59 copies
Myths and Folk Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars (1903) 43 copies
Hero-Tales of Ireland (1894) 32 copies
Irish Folk-Tales (1943) 15 copies
Seneca Indian Myths (1922) 11 copies
Myths of the Modocs (1901) 9 copies
A Journey in Southern Siberia (2007) 9 copies
The Mongols in Russia (2008) 3 copies
Fairy tales of eastern Europe (1990) 3 copies
Histoires de fantômes irlandais (2009) 2 copies
The Trilogy: With Fire and Sword, The Deluge & Sir Michael 2 copies
Awaswas Wordlist 2 copies
Myths and Folktales of Ireland (2011) 2 copies
Mõrvarlikud vaimud : Iiri haldja- ja vaimujutud : Munsteri edelaosast kogutud suulised rahvapärimused (2011) 2 copies
Myths and folk-tales 2 copies
Memoirs of Jeremiah Curtin 2 copies
"Achomawi Myths," 1 copy
Wonder tales from Russia 1 copy
Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland 1 copy
Mitos de la Creación por los Indios de Norteamérica (1997) 1 copy
The Son of the King of Erin, and the Giant of Loch Léin 1 copy
Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World collected from oral tradition in the south-west Munster 1 copy
Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland by Jeremiah Curtin ( illustrated edition) 1 copy
Introduction to Seneca Fiction, Legends and Myths (Classic Reprint) (2016) 1 copy
The Mongols, Their Religion and Their Myths (2012) 1 copy
Introduction to Seneca fiction legends and myths 1 copy
The Folk-Tales of the Magyars Collected by Kriza, Erdélyi, Pap, and Others 1 copy
Tales of the fairies and of the ghost world : collected from oral tradition in south-west Munster 1 copy
The Three Daughters of King O'Hara 1 copy
The Weaver's Son and the Giant of the White Hill (1890) 1 copy
The King of Erin and the Queen of Lonesome Island 1 copy
The Thirteenth Son of the King of Erin 1 copy
The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia (The Trilogy #2) 1 copy
The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 1 copy
Thaitin Se Le peig: Irish na Hoichreachta 1 1 copy
Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World Collected from Oral Tradition in South-West Munster 1 copy
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Associated Works

With Fire and Sword (1884) — Translator, some editions — 476 copies
The Pharaoh (1897) — Translator, some editions — 253 copies
The Deluge (complete) (1886) — Translator, some editions — 251 copies
Great Folk Tales of Old Ireland (1972) 162 copies
Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World (2017) — Contributor — 104 copies
The Wordsworth Collection of Irish Ghost Stories (2005) — Contributor — 64 copies
Irish Folk and Fairy Tales (1992) — Contributor — 59 copies
On the Field of Glory (1906) — Translator, some editions — 54 copies
With Fire and Sword (Vol. 2) (1990) — Translator, some editions — 48 copies
Irish Ghost Stories (2011) — Contributor — 35 copies

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Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
Skill levels among the readers varied widely, generally stripping the stories of their intended humor or romance.
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Bonnie_Bailey | 8 other reviews | Apr 12, 2020 |
Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
This is NOT written as a children's book. The language in this book is written in Old English and reads more like a Shakepearean sonnet. I bought this to add to my young son's library, but it is not appropriate for that. I'm sure however that adults who can read Old English with ease would find this book entertaining.
 
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SumisBooks | 8 other reviews | Nov 18, 2017 |
Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland (Celtic, Irish) by Jeremiah Curtin
Fairy tales, or rather fairy stories, if that's a distinction meaningful outside of my own head, about sons and daughters and Fionn, who is a son, and the things they do, fighting giants, playing games of chance and always losing the third, stealing clothes from magician's daughters who change into swans, fighting the armies of the king of Spain, outwitting hags, getting a hell of a lot of wise and/or magical help to see them through their adventures, marrying up and making out like bandits. The repetitions and similarities grate at first, but soon the tales work their magic and you feel the rhythm and the cadences, the comfort of the familiar patterns and things that aren't so much repeated as shared. Alien to a modern audience, not really prose and certainly not poetry, artifacts of a different time and yet the very stuff our dreams are made of.… (more)
 
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Nigel_Quinlan | 3 other reviews | Oct 21, 2015 |
Myths and Folklore of Ireland by Jeremiah Curtin
The particular ebook I have is very badly OCR'd, which makes the names even harder to parse than usual. The first half of this book is mostly fairy tales in the traditional sense, albeit with more single combat and cutting off of heads than you're used to from Grimm; the second half is Fin MacCumhail stories (topped off with Oisin, of course), which I enjoyed much more.
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jen.e.moore | 3 other reviews | May 30, 2015 |
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