Originally published in 1890, Turf Fire Stories and Fairy Tales of Ireland is a delightful collection of tales not found anywhere else. Stories include "The Four Leaved Shamrock," "Blarney Castle," "Murder Will Out," "Smuggled Poteen," "The Irish Whistle," "The Fairy's Purse," "The Magic Clover," "The Wishing Stone," and many more. With fifty-six tales in all, there's something to please every fan of Irish myth and legend. Woodcut illustrations throughout.
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Here you will find vintage photos, engravings, and other images of bagpipes and pipers from around the world, as well as stories, legends, and true-life tales related to piping. Do you have a story or image to share? Send it to blog@compassrose.com, and I'll be sure to include it.
The bagpipes have a long and noble history stretching back centuries. In various forms and by different names, they have been played across Europe and the Middle East, and in such diverse places as India and the Americas. The Piper Came to Our Town is a collection of over seventy stories, tales, anecdotes, and legends of pipers, running the gamut from the ordinary to the supernatural. You will travel from the battlefields of Africa to faerie caves below the earth, and meet pipers urging troops to victory, fighting off man-eating cows, and even creating new worlds. The Piper Came to Our Town will delight fans of bagpipe music, lore, and tradition, as well as anyone who likes a good folk story.
The complete contents of "The Piper Came to Our Town" are found below. A few of these poems or legends can be read on this site; click on the active links. Information regarding the original sources to all the tales can be found in the book's notes.
The Piper and the Pooka of November. Piper, Play Mannix the Coiner The Piper of Weinsberg Irish Pipers in Literature (Conflicting Interests, Thady Connor and How He Got His Pipes; Daniel O'Leary, The Duhallow Piper; Rory Oge, The Killaloe Piper; Remmy Carroll, The Fermoy Piper; The Silent Piper; The Satanic Piper) The Irish Bagpiper The Piper of Mucklebrowst The Highland Piper Ould Murphy the Piper Black Chanter of Chattan Pibroch o’ Donuil Dhu When Bagpipes Held No Charm Purcel the Piper The Piper The Wonderful Tune The Pipes o’ Gordon’s Men The Young Piper The Fairy Teachers Terry O’Roon and His Wonderful Tune Diarmid Bawn, The Piper Hell’s Piper The Ratcatcher Tom Tit Tot The Last Piper The Fisher The Changeling and His Bagpipes Barrett the Piper Mr. Vinegar The Dragon and the Prince Great Hand and the Piper The Russet Dog The Cow That Ate the Piper The Cow That Ate the Piper (Poem) The Pipers The Cattle Jobber of Awnascawil The Host of the Air The Fairy Pipes Hans the Hedgehog The Caraiman Caoch the Piper The Hundred Pipers Piper M’Nee The Piper o’ Dundee Music for the Road Bagpipes and the Clergy The Pibroch’s Notes Thoughts o’ Langsyne Maggie Lauder The Fairy Piper The Kintalen Changeling The Pipes at Lucknow The Relief of Lucknow The Piper and the Changeable Fairy To the Lion Rampant The Pipes: Onset The Hereditary Pipers Bagpipes versus Fiddle Turlough MacSweeney Turlough and the Fairy King The Pipers o’ Buchan The Wounded Piper of Elandslaagte Prisoner of War The Kirk of Killiechrist Hannaberry the Piper Music, Dancing and Drunkenness
Editor's Note: 13 of the 70+ tales appeared in an earlier collection, Whistling Jigs to the Moon: Tales of Irish and Scottish Pipers, published in 1993 and now out of print. These are: "The Piper and the Pooka," "Hell's Piper" by Riccardo Stevens, "The Young Piper" by T. Crofton Croker, "The Pipes: Onset" by Lt. Joseph Lee, "To the Lion Rampant" by Alice MacDonnel, "The Kintalen Changeling" by James MacDougal, "Prisoner of War", "The Pipers o' Buchan" by Peter Buchan, "Maggie Lauder," "The Cow That Ate the Piper (Poem)," "Mr. Vinegar" by Joseph Jacobs", "Tom Tit Tot," and "Diarmid Bawn" by T. Crofton Croker.
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