Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

Ed. W. B. Yeats

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

The Camelot Series, No. 32. London

Walter Scott

1888

First edition

Yeats's first true book was published when he was 23 years old. In this compilation of tales gathered from various secondary sources as well as his own imagination, Yeats created a fairy world of which he was the master, establishing him as one of the important voices in developing the Celtic mythology that was coming alive in Irish literature. Yeats began work on it in February 1888; it was published in September.