PREFACE.

While these manuscripts were in the hands of Messrs. Sealy, Bryer & Walker, Printers, Dublin, the late Irish rising took place. During the fight, between the British military and the Irish Republican forces, a portion of the City of Dublin was destroyed by fire and artillery, including the printers' premises, together with the author's manuscripts for these books, and other works. Fearing the destruction of liners, by German submarines, the author held copies of his works until landed in Ireland. Believing that there they were safe, the copies were neglected and portions of them burned and lost. Therefore in the following pages the author presents to the reader but the remaining two parts of a book left after the Dublin fire, to which is added a brief account of Sinn Feiners and the outbreak.

AUTHOR.

Dated at Oakland, California, this 3rd day of July, 1916.

CONTENTS.

Page
Abduction[16]
All Fools' Day[76]
Ancient Cross Roads[76]
Ancient National Dances[78]
Ardnane[78]
Bally-Ferriter Evictions[78]
Banshee[78]
Barking Disease[18]
Battle of Boyne[18]
Battle of Glantarf[19]
Begrudging[79]
Bellman[79]
Black Death[19]
Black Famine[20]
Blind Fiddlers and Flute Players[80]
Blood Money[20]
Boats and Canoes Haunted[80]
Bodach[80]
Bone Fires[81]
Bone Setters[81]
Boycotting[21]
Brack-an-Tobar[81]
Brandon Mountain[81]
Brehons[21]
Brendon (St.) Feast[82]
Brigid's Day (St.)[21]
Cat Brack[22]
Catholic Rent[23]
Changelings[82]
Charity Meal[23]
Charms[82]
Cholera Plague[24]
Clanna-Gael[24]
Cloghane Pattern Day[24]
Cockfighting[25]
Contracts with the Devil[83]
Corkaguiny Magistrates Dislike Attorneys[25]
Cross Thursday[83]
Cromwell[25]
Crowbar Brigade[26]
Curious Customs—Introduction[69 to 75 inc.]
Death Warning[84]
Doon-an-Ore[26]
Easter Sunday or Sun Dance[84]
Eastern, Protestant and Catholic Winds[85]
English Garrison[26]
Enlisting Young Men with a Shilling[26]
Excommunication with Bell, Book and Candle[27]
Faction Fights[27]
Fallen Angels[86]
Fenianism[29], [64]
Forty-Shilling Freeholders[29]
Funeral Bells[86]
Gates of Glory[87]
Gaudy Ribbon Crosses[29]
Ghosts Cannot Cross Running Water[87]
Glas-Guineach[87]
Glenbeigh Evictions[30]
Gospels[88]
Great Famine[30]
Halley's Comet[30]
Harrington and Esmond's Election[31]
Haunted Houses[88]
Head Act[30]
Headless Coach Stories[88]
History of Ireland—Introduction[3 to 15 inc.]
Hold out the Hand and Split the Difference[89]
Holy Water Bottles in Canoes[89]
Holy Wells[89]
Home Rule[31]
Horn Dance[89]
Horse Shoe Nail Over the Door[89]
House League[32]
Hurley[90]
Influenza[32]
Invisible-Blood-Jobbers[33]
I Usga Bagha[90]
Ivy Day[33]
Judges Bringing Bad Weather to Kerry[90]
Kennels and Hunting[33]
Kerry Bonds[33]
Kerry Cows Know Sunday[33]
Kerry Election[34]
Kissing the Blarney Stone[34]
Lady Day[91]
Landlords' and their Land Agents' Approval Necessary to Marriages[37]
Land League and Irish National League[37]
Land Purchase Act of George Wyndham's[29]
La Varaha na Feir[38]
Leith Broath[38]
Leprachawn[91]
Lycanthropy[91]
Marriages and Weddings[91]
May Day[92]
Middlemen and the Conacre System[38]
Mistletoe[92]
Molly McGuires[39]
Moonlighting[42]
Mother Carey's Chickens or Stormy Petrels[93]
Mug[94]
Mugs[94]
National School Teachers Slapping Children for Speaking Irish[42]
Ogham Characters[43]
Orangemen[43]
Pagan Wells[95]
Parnellite Splits[43]
Patron Days[96]
Peelers[45]
Penal Laws[45]
Penitent Pilgrims of the Cat-Brack[97]
Phoenix Park Murders[46]
Pitch Cap[47]
Plan of Campaign[47]
Poff and Barrett Hanged[47]
Poor Scholars or Hedge School Teachers[47]
Pope's Brass Band[47]
Primrose League[46]
Public Pilgrimage to Brandon Mountain[48]
Racing at Weddings[97]
Recantations (Public)[48]
Red Coals of Fire Given Out of the House[98]
Rounds[98]
Saints' Birthdays[48]
Sinn Fein[49]
Skelligs[55]
Shea-Hated by the Mermaids[98]
Snap Apple Nights[99]
Soupers' Campaign[55]
Spanish Armada[55]
Statute of Kilkenny[56]
Steel-Pen Coats[100]
St. Martin's Eve[100]
St. Patrick and the Snakes[100]
St. Patrick's Day[56]
St. Stephen's Day[102]
Sunburst of Erin[103]
Tanistry[56]
Tara[56]
Tenants' Defense League[57]
Tenant League[57]
Thierna-Dubh's Raid[58]
Thomas-an-Aehig[61]
Tithes[61]
Tithes Artificial Famine[62]
Toothache Cure[103]
Treaty of Limerick[62]
Turn Coats[62]
United Irishmen[62]
White Boys[63]
Wicker Baskets[63]
Wild Geese[64]
Wreck of "Port-Yorack"[64]
Witches[103]