Sgéalta Thomáis Uí Chathasaigh. Collected, Editor, & Translated by Douglas Hyde. Dublin: The Irish Text Society, 1939. Pp xxiii, 388 pages (unopened) with a portrait plate. Green cloth lettered in gilt. A fine copy.

Volume 36 of Irish Texts Society (Series). Irish and English on opposite pages.

A collection of folk tales and stories from County Mayo, transcribed from the oral tradition of Thomas Casey. The work includes a preface, notes on translation, and detailed annotations by Douglas Hyde.

Some of the stories included are “The Devil’s Son and the Priest’s Evidence,” “The Lord of Cashel-Rooyeen,” “Martin MacGowan,” “The Fairy Hare,” and “Captain Fitzgerald and Colonel Martin of Ballinahinch“