Only an hour away, the sea. The enchanted cap ; All day I hear the noise of waters / James Joyce ; Herring is king / Alfred Percival Graves ; Saint Patrick and the salmon ; The fate of the children of Lir ; Irish lullaby / Alfred Percival Graves -- Not just potatoes, the food. Wheatlet, son of Milklet ; Bewitched butter ; Onions and herrings / Jonathan Swift ; The potato ; Irish stew ; Irish soda bread ; Marshmallow crackers -- Alive alive-O, the music. The musician's invitation ; Larks / Katherine Tynan ; Strings in the earth and air / James Joyce ; The traveling men of Ballycoo / Eve Bunting ; Cockles and mussels (Molly Malone) ; The fairies' dancing place -- Emerald isle, the pride. Saint Bridget spreads her cloak ; The Limerick lasses / Alfred Percival Graves ; Finn McCool and the Scottish giant ; The land of eternal youth ; Ireland / Dora Sigerson ; Irish battle cries ; Irish blessings ; All things bright and beautiful / Cecil Frances Alexander -- In love with words, the scholars. The Irish student and his cat ; Ode to writers / Arthur O'Shaughnessy ; Where my books go / William Butler Yeats ; The man who had no story -- Fields and farms, the land. The wind that shakes the barley / Katherine Tynan ; Donald O'Neary and his neighbors ; The lake isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats ; My land / Thomas Davis -- Enchantment, the fairies. The fairies in New Ross ; The fairies / William Allingham ; Fair, brown and trembling ; The stolen child / William Butler Yeats ; To cure a child under a fairy spell ; The star-child / Oscar Wilde -- Who makes the fairies' shoes? The leprechauns. Patrick O'Donnell and the leprechaun ; The leprechaun / William Allingham ; The leprechaun / Robert Dwyer Joyce -- People never stop talking, the blarney. What it is, how to do it, and the Blarney Stone ; Limericks ; Brian O'Linn ; Folk riddles ; A riddle / Jonathan Swift ; Irish oaths and curses ; The curse / John Millington Synge ; Ancient Irish folk cures ; Philosophies for the very young / Oscar Wilde.
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