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IRISH FAIRY TALES
by JAMES STEPHENS

CONTENTS
THE STORY OF TUAN MAC CAIRILL THE BOYHOOD OF
FIONN THE BIRTH OF BRAN OISI'N'S MOTHER THE WOOING
OF BECFOLA THE LITTLE BRAWL AT ALLEN THE CARL OF
THE DRAB COAT THE ENCHANTED CAVE OF CESH CORRAN
BECUMA OF THE WHITE SKIN MONGAN'S FRENZY

THE STORY OF TUAN MAC CAIRILL


CHAPTER I
Finnian, the Abbott of Moville, went southwards and eastwards in great
haste. News had come to him in Donegal that there were yet people in
his own province who believed in gods that he did not approve of, and
the gods that we do not approve of are treated scurvily, even by saintly
men.
He was told of a powerful gentleman who observed neither Saint's day
nor Sunday.
"A powerful person!" said Finnian.
"All that," was the reply.
"We shall try this person's power," said Finnian.

"He is reputed to be a wise and hardy man," said his informant.
"We shall test his wisdom and his hardihood."
"He is," that gossip whispered--"he is a magician."
"I will magician him," cried Finnian angrily. "Where does that man
live?"
He was informed, and he proceeded to that direction without delay.
In no great time he came to the stronghold of the gentleman who
followed ancient ways, and he demanded admittance in order that he
might preach and prove the new God, and exorcise and terrify and
banish even the memory of the old one; for to a god grown old Time is
as ruthless as to a beggarman grown old.
But the Ulster gentleman refused Finnian admittance. He barricaded his
house, he shuttered his windows, and in a gloom of indignation and
protest he continued the practices of ten thousand years, and would not
hearken to Finnian calling at the window or to Time knocking at his
door.
But of those adversaries it was the first he redoubted.
Finnian loomed on him as a portent and a