Joseph Jacobs

Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

Illustrator: John Dickson Batten


Connla and the fairy maiden Guleesh The field of Boliauns The horned women Conall Yellowclaw Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary The shepherd of Myddvai The sprightly tailor The story of Deirdre Munachar and Manachar Gold-tree and silver-tree King O'Toole and his goose The wooing of Olwen Jack and his comrades The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire The story-teller at fault The sea-maiden A legend of Knockmany Fair, brown, and trembling Jack and his master Beth Gellert The tale of Ivan Andrew Coffey The battle of the birds Brewery of eggshells The lad with the goat-skin.




Joseph Jacobs (29 August 1854 - 30 January 1916) was an Australian folklorist, translator, literary critic, social scientist, historian and writer of English literature who became a notable collector and publisher of English folklore.


John Dickson Batten (8 October 1860 - 5 August 1932), born in Plymouth, Devon, was an English painter of figures in oils, tempera and fresco and a book illustrator and printmaker. He was an active member of the Society of Painters in Tempera, with his wife Mary Batten, a gilder.