The Book of Irish Ballads
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Overview:
- Title: The Book of Irish Ballads
- Author: D. F. McCarthy
- Year: 1846
- Publisher: James Duffy
- Pages: 252
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Anthology
- Title Reference: The Fairy Well of Lagnanay
- Notes:
- Data from Google Books scan
- First edition.
- All names beginning with Mc in this book are printed with a superscript c which should not be mistaken for an apostrophe.
- Divided into sections: Ballads Illustrative of the Fairy Mythology and Traditions of Ireland; Ballads Illustrative of the Superstitions and Customs of Ireland; Historical Ballads; Descriptive Ballads; Legendary Ballads; Ballads of the Affections; Political Ballads; Miscellaneous Ballads.
- There are some differences between the titles as they appear at the head of the ballads and as they appear in the table of contents, for the reason that certain words have been printed in Irish (in an Irish typeface) in the former and Anglicized in the latter. To wit:
- Page 37: "Tobar-na-Sia"—TOC: "Thubber-na-Shie"
- Page 76: "An Beansighe"—TOC: "The Banshee"
- Page 92: "Beansighe"—TOC: "Banshee"
- Page 96: "An Caoine"—TOC: "The Caoine"
- Page 114: "Conacht"—TOC: "Connaught"
- On page 60, "Ceim-an-eich" is written in Irish; this subtitle doesn't appear in the table of contents.
- Only contents with speculative elements are indexed here.