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Category: <span>Gaelic – Irish</span>

Category: Gaelic – Irish

'Celtic', folktales - Scottish, Gaelic - Irish, Gaelic - Scots, illustrated books, illustrators & artists - Scottish, myth and legend, women writers

A thousand years of Star-Eyed Deirdre

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In this post, Kate Mathis explores the significant achievement of Louey Chisholm’s *Celtic Tales Told To the Children* (1910) —    a portrait of Deirdre which preserves some of the intricacy, danger, and violence of a thousand-year-old Gaelic tale… * Sarah’s recent post on Ella Young (1867-1956) introduced us to her best-known, …

'Celtic', fairy tales, folktales - Scottish, Gaelic - Irish, Gaelic - Scots, myth and legend, Scotland, women writers

‘Celtic Tales Told to the Children’

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Eighteen months on from our first descent into the Museum of Childhood’s basement vault and every box still tells a story. In one we opened lay two beautifully illustrated volumes from the early twentieth century. Several threads bound them together —  pooled from the same body of legends and stories …

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