The King of Ireland’s Son

Author: Padraic Colum

Genre: Irish Fairy Tale (published in 1916)

Reading Time for Text: Approx. 6 hours

Audio:

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Background:

This classic childrens’ story is written by Padraic Colum. As a collector of Irish folk tales, Colum translated many of them from Gaelic (the ancient Irish language) into English. Several of these tales are weaved together in this epic adventure. At first the stories all seem to be disconnected, but in the end, they are creatively and delightfully tied together.

Text:

The text for this story can be found at The Baldwin Project.

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