The young Yeats sets down what the people of Sligo and the west of Ireland told him about the Sidhe, village ghosts, sorcerers and the Devil. There is Paddy Flynn the teller of tales, a visionary friend, a woman taken by the fairies, and the last of the wandering gleemen, all set among Yeats’s own memories and poems.
The book that gave the Irish literary revival its name, and the purest prose of Yeats’s early years. Download the free EPUB.