Irish Fairy Tales - Softcover

Leamy, Edmund

Softcover

ISBN 10: 197595694X ISBN 13: 9781975956943

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

The distractions of political life, into which he entered with characteristic enthusiasm, prevented Edmund Leamy from cultivating his favourite field of literature with that assiduity and sustained application necessary for the purpose of bringing out the really great intellectual powers with which he was endowed; otherwise, he would certainly have left to Ireland a large body of literature which would have been the delight of old and young. But in this volume he has given at least an indication of what he was capable of doing towards that end. No one can read these pages without feeling the charm of a fine and delicate fancy, a rare power of poetic expression, and a genuinely Irish instinct; without feeling also an intense regret that the mind and heart from which they proceeded were stilled in death long before the powers of his genius could have been exhausted.

About this edition

• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 197595694X
• ISBN 13: 9781975956943
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112