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Thread #160963   Message #3825991
Posted By: Rapparee
12-Dec-16 - 09:52 AM
Thread Name: The Wild Rapparee
Subject: RE: The Wild Rapparee
You might also appreciate Padraic Colum's "Treasury of Irish Folklore," Samuel Lover and Thomas Crofton Croker's "Ireland: Myths and Legends," and Charles Squires' "Celtic Myth and Legend."

Of course, it depends upon what you are looking for. Cu's story has been told and retold, but those of others less so.

Lover and Crocker's book is filled with dialogue of the "Musha, mavoureen, but you'll be wantin' a bit of the crayture after that spalpeen took yer money" sort. Still, it's a good read if you can get past the 19th Century attempt at copying the nuances of the speech patterns of the Irish countryfolk.