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HUMOUR SERIES

Edited by W. H. DIRCKS

THE HUMOUR OF IRELAND

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“AND EACH GIRL HE PASSED BID ‘GOD BLESS HIM’ ANDSIGHED.”—P. 276.

THE
HUMOUR OF IRELAND

SELECTED, WITH INTRODUCTION,
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX AND NOTES, BY
D. J. O’DONOGHUE:
THE
ILLUSTRATIONS BY OLIVER PAQUE

THE WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING CO., LTD.,
PATERNOSTER SQUARE, LONDON, E.C.
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS,
153–157 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK.
1908.


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CONTENTS.

PAGE
Introductionxi
Exorcising the Demon of VoracityFrom the Irish1
The Roman EarlFrom the Irish7
The Fellow in the Goat-SkinFolk-Tale9
Often-who-Came and Seldom-who-CameFrom the Irish22
The Old Crow and the Young CrowFrom the Irish23
Roger and the Grey MareFolk-Poem23
Will o’ the WispFolk-Tale25
Epigrams and RiddlesFrom the Irish32
Donald and his NeighboursFolk-Tale34
The Woman of Three CowsFrom the Irish39
In Praise of DigressionsJonathan Swift41
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