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Ireland · October 12, 2026 · 24:22

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry — Part 1 of 25 (The Fairies · Frank Martin and the Fairies · The Priest's Supper · The Fairy Well of Lagnanay)

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry — Part 1 of 25 (The Fairies · Frank Martin and the Fairies · The Priest's Supper · The Fairy Well of Lagnanay)
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In this episode

Four pieces from W. B. Yeats's Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888), read in the order Yeats printed them: "The Fairies" by William Allingham (poem), "Frank Martin and the Fairies" by William Carleton, "The Priest's Supper" by T. Crofton Croker, and "The Fairy Well of Lagnanay" by Samuel Ferguson (poem) — all from the section "The Trooping Fairies."

Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.

Intermission: "Three Pairs of Yellow Eyes."

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