Seven Stones Of Sligo An Irish Legend

This Irish legend tells the tale of a handsome young prince and his beautiful mermaid bride. Taken from the sea, the mermaid agrees to marry the prince and together they raise seven children. But eventually the day comes when the mermaid must return to the sea. Will the prince lose his family forever?

Designed to be used by children in their first six months of school PM Starters One and Two

From sinister spells to healing wells, this illustrated collection of 43 traditional Irish yarns brings forth the magic of a proud people and their lyrical landscapes. While you may know of the Blarney Stone or St. Patrick, you've probably never heard the saga of Lia Lfail, the ancient stone said to confirm a king's legitimacy by shrieking under the weight of his footsteps, or the legend of Dublin's haunted Hell Fire Club, where the devil himself was once believed to have paid a visit. Saturated with the colors of the Emerald Isle, the photos that grace these pages will transport you to a world of heroic deeds, violent deaths, and otherworldly adventures. Through these fanciful tales that have survived over the centuries, you'll glean fascinating facts on Irish genealogy, etymology and history. So suspend disbelief and step into a world steeped in storytelling and rich with lore.

The PM Teacher's Guide Ruby Level provides suggestions for small-group teaching using the twelve chapter books, six non-fiction titles and the anthology of fiction, non fiction and poetry. Each set of teachers notes includes: ' suggested activities for two teaching sessions with a target group, in which the teacher guides the children to read for meaning and to develop appropriate reading strategies and responses; ' suggested focuses for one or more independent reading sessions during which the children complete the reading of the book; ' blackline masters for each title or anthology piece which are designed to focus the children's attention on and provide practice in specific reading and writing skills and knowledge; ' computer task center activity cards for each title which are designed to develop the children's information and technology skills in the content of a language activity; The teachers' guide also provides weekly timetables which demonstrate two ways of organising the classroom for small group teaching.

An investigation of the places in the Irish landscape where open-air Gaelic royal inauguration assemblies were held from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries.

In this critical study of the influence of W. B. Yeats (1865–1939) on the poetry and drama of Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962), Deborah Fleming examines similarities in imagery, landscape, belief in eternal recurrence, use of myth, distrust of rationalism, and dedication to tradition. Although Yeats’s and Jeffers’s styles differed widely, Towers of Myth and Stone examines how the two men shared a vision of modernity, rejected contemporary values in favor of traditions (some of their own making), and created poetry that sought to change those values. Jeffers’s well-known opposition to modernist poetry forced him for decades to the margins of critical appraisal, where he was seen as an eccentric without aesthetic content. Yet both Yeats and Jeffers formulated social and poetic philosophies that continue to find relevance in critical and cultural theory. Engaging Yeats’s work enabled Jeffers to develop a related, though distinct, sense of what themes and subject matter were best suited for poetic endeavor. His connection to Yeats helps to explain the nature of Jeffers’s poetry even as it helps to clarify Yeats’s influence on those who followed him. Moreover, Fleming argues, Jeffers’s interest in Yeats suggests that critics misunderstand Jeffers if they take his rejection of modernism (as exemplified by Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Ezra Pound) as a rejection of contemporary poetry or the process by which modern poetry came into being.

This collection brings together all of W. B. Yeats’s published prose writings on Irish folklore, legend and myth, with pieces on subjects including ghosts, kidnappers, fairies, ancient tribes, precious stones and Gaelic love songs. Through his researches on Irish folklore, Yeats attempted to create a movement in literature that was enriched by and rooted in a vital native tradition. In this volume Yeats’s essays, introductions and sketches are presented chronologically, giving a clear picture of how his analysis developed, increasing in its depth and complexity in his quest to create an Ireland of the imagination.