CONTENTS

THE CELTIC TWILIGHT
PAGE

THIS BOOK

[1]

A TELLER OF TALES

[3]

BELIEF AND UNBELIEF

[6]

MORTAL HELP

[9]

A VISIONARY

[11]

VILLAGE GHOSTS

[17]

‘DUST HATH CLOSED HELEN’S EYE’

[27]

A KNIGHT OF THE SHEEP

[39]

AN ENDURING HEART

[44]

THE SORCERERS

[48]

THE DEVIL

[54]

HAPPY AND UNHAPPY THEOLOGIANS

[56]

THE LAST GLEEMAN

[63]

REGINA, REGINA PIGMEORUM VENI

[73]

‘AND FAIR, FIERCE WOMEN’

[78]

ENCHANTED WOODS

[82]

MIRACULOUS CREATURES

[89]

ARISTOTLE OF THE BOOKS

[91]

THE SWINE OF THE GODS

[92]

A VOICE

[94]

KIDNAPPERS

[96]

THE UNTIRING ONES

[106]

EARTH, FIRE AND WATER

[110]

THE OLD TOWN

[112]

THE MAN AND HIS BOOTS

[115]

A COWARD

[117]

THE THREE O’BYRNES AND THE EVIL FAERIES

[119]

DRUMCLIFF AND ROSSES

[121]

THE THICK SKULL OF THE FORTUNATE

[131]

THE RELIGION OF A SAILOR

[134]

CONCERNING THE NEARNESS TOGETHER OF HEAVEN, EARTH, AND PURGATORY

[136]

THE EATERS OF PRECIOUS STONES

[138]

OUR LADY OF THE HILLS

[140]

THE GOLDEN AGE

[144]

A REMONSTRANCE WITH SCOTSMEN FOR HAVING SOURED THE DISPOSITION OF THEIR GHOSTS AND FAERIES

[146]

WAR

[152]

THE QUEEN AND THE FOOL

[155]

THE FRIENDS OF THE PEOPLE OF FAERY

[162]

DREAMS THAT HAVE NO MORAL

[172]

BY THE ROADSIDE

[190]

‘INTO THE TWILIGHT’

[193]
STORIES OF RED HANRAHAN:

RED HANRAHAN

[197]

THE TWISTING OF THE ROPE

[213]

HANRAHAN AND CATHLEEN THE DAUGHTER OF HOOLIHAN

[225]

RED HANRAHAN’S CURSE

[231]

HANRAHAN’S VISION

[242]

THE DEATH OF HANRAHAN

[250]

THE CELTIC TWILIGHT

Time drops in decay

Like a candle burnt out,

And the mountains and woods

Have their day, have their day;

But, kindly old rout

Of the fire-born moods,