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Name: Irish sagas and folk-tales
Author: Eileen O'Faoláin

📘 Irish sagas and folk-tales by Eileen O'Faoláin

Twenty-one stories from Ireland, including heroic sagas, ancestral tales of men and gods, stories about the Fianna, a band of warrior-athletes, and tales of fairies and leprechauns.

First publish date: 1954

Authors: Eileen O'Faoláin

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