Celtic Fairy Tales: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Celtic Fairy Tales, credited to Joseph Jacobs, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of Celtic Fairy Tales selected and edited by Joseph Jacobs. Read by LibriVox Volunteers. Celtic Fairy Tales is a collection of 25 folk and fairy stories collected from Ireland and Scotland. At what I imagine is the Frontispiece, or the dedication page, is the phrase: "SAY THIS /Three times, with your eyes shut_/ 'Mothuighim boladh an Éireannaigh bhinn bhreugaigh faoi m'fhóidín dúthaigh.' And you will see/What you will see" A loose translation of this Gaelic phrase is "I sense the smell of a sweet, enchanting Irishman around my dear homeplace." Translation provided by www.irishgaelictranslator.com/ (Summary by Pete Lutz) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Celtic Fairy Tales
• Author credits: Joseph Jacobs
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 6:27:42

Catalogue topics

• fairy tales
• fiction
• Irish folklore
• Celtic

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 00 - Preface — 8:24
2. 01 - Connla and the Fairy Maiden — 5:01
3. 02 - Guleesh — 39:00
4. 03 - The Field of Boliauns — 5:27
5. 04 - The Horned Women — 5:03
6. 05 - Conall Yellowclaw — 29:09
7. 06 - Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary — 11:29
8. 07 - The Shepherd of Myddvai — 4:09
9. 08 - The Sprightly Tailor — 5:18
10. 09 - The Story of Deirdre — 28:47
11. 10 - Munachar and Manachar — 6:16
12. 11 - Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree — 6:00
13. 12 - King O'Toole and His Goose — 7:06
14. 13 - The wooing of Olwen — 26:36
15. 14 - Jack and his Comrades — 15:29
16. 15 - The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire — 16:06
17. 16 - The Story Teller at Fault — 19:51
18. 17 - The Sea-Maiden — 21:05
19. 18 - A Legend of Knockmany — 18:04
20. 19 - Fair, Brown, and Trembling — 23:25
21. 20 - Jack and His Master — 16:27
22. 21 - Beth Gellert — 3:00
23. 22 - The Tale of Ivan — 6:18
24. 23 - Andrew Coffey — 7:06

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