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  1. The Fairy Changeling

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    child had said. The smith said he couldn't produce such a flame as that, and also told him that he thought there was no other smith in the county could do it except one man that was living in Gorey. Murphy set out for Gorey and it wasn't long until he came to the smiths forge. The smith was inside working and he was a very old man, Murphy thought he was surely one hundred years of age. Murphy told him about the part of the plough, how no smith in the county could weld it, and he also told him what the child had said. When the smith heard the story he wondered greatly. "There is no other smith in the country knows anything about that charm but myself" says he to Murphy and

  2. (gan teideal)

    “There was a smith one time and he was very poor...”

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    to get out of the chair, but wasn't able, and then he knew that the smith had fooled him. "Well" says the smith and he laughing and looking at the divil "what way are you my poor fellow" the divil could say nothing but he was ragin. When am I goin to get out of this chair says he to the smith". You'll get out of that chair when you give me enough money to keep me living for another year. The divil was delighted for he thought he would never get out of the chair "Very good" says he. Then he came out of the chair and gave the smith enough money to keep him goin another twelmonth. The divil told the smith that he would call again at the end of the year.

  3. (gan teideal)

    “There was a smith one time and he was very poor...”

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    The smith now was in good form again and he had plenty of money, but of course the twelmonth wasn't long going when it was spent well and it twasn't long until the divil again appeared. This time the smith though he was surely finished for he could think of no way of coaxin the divil to give him another year. Anyhow he was goin off with the divil and the divil was tellin the smith all the tricks he could do, sayin he could make himself small. The smith asked him would he be able to fit in his purse. The divil said of course he would and he got into the purse. The smith then closed the purse and the divil couldn't get out.

  4. Will-o'-the-wisp

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    and had a pair of horns and a tail. The black man noticed the smith getting the fright. "You needn't be a bit afraid of me" says he "I've come to do you no hard" "What have you come for then" says the smith. "I'll tell you" says the black man. I know you are in a bad way at present and would give anything to make money. Well I will give you plenty of money, more money than you'll ever be able to spend" says the black man "on one condition alone." "What is that" asked the smith "that you will come with me at the end of ten years." The smith was silent for a few minutes and then finally answered. "It's a bargain" for he was delighted to get money on any condition. "Very good" says the black man "I hope that you'll have a good

  5. Will-o'-the-wisp

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    time, but expect me at the end of ten years."
    The smith then was a gentleman. He spent a very good time travelling around the world, but he used always return home and do a bit of smith work to amuse himself. Ten years don't be long going when spent well, and one morning while the smith was amusing himself in the forge, who walking in but the black man. "The ten years are up" says he "Very good" says the smith I'm ready to go." They travelled on until they were passing a public-house, and then says the smith to the black man "I'm very fond of beer" says he, "but the worst of it is" says he "I'm no money to buy it. Perhaps you could change yourself into a two-shilling piece for half an hour or so and save

  6. (gan teideal)

    “There was a smith one time and he was goin' home late at night...”

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    least. Than says the divil to the smith “you were the first man that I met and I will ask you to hand me over my money or give me something to do and if I’m not able I’ll let you off”. The smith had a little bag and it full of bits of horseshoes that is the bits that the smith cuts off when the shoe is too long and he spilled them out on the grass and he asked the divil to make a set of shoes out of them. The divil caught up a handful of the little bits of iron and threw them up in the air and they came down four horseshoes. The poor smith couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw them. “Well” says the divil to him “I did that fairly well and now me poor fella you’re booked for the down train and there is no return ticket”. Then the ould boy

  7. (gan teideal)

    “There was a smith one time and he was very poor...”

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    The divil kicked up and awful row inside but he couldn't get out. He asked the smith to let him out and he would give him another year but the smith wouldn't hear of it. The divil then told him if he'd let him out he wouldn't trouble him any more. So the smith let him out. Then the divil went off with himself and the smith went back to his work.
    He lived away now quite contended with himself. He got fairly well off and never was in want from the time the divil let him to the day he died. When he died he went to gate of heaven and he wouldn't be let in there for they told

  8. (gan teideal)

    “There was a smith one time and he was very poor...”

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    that that part of it would be allright. The divil went away in good humour. The smith was in good form now as he had plenty of money, but there was one great trouble on his mind and that was that he would have to go with the divil in a very short time. When the twelmonth was nearly up the smith went to an old fairy woman and asked her advice on the matter. She told him she would give him a chair and get the divil to sit in it and then he would have to stay in it until he would release him. The smith thanked the woman very much and went home. When the year was up the divil appeared at the forge door an was smiling from

  9. (gan teideal)

    “There was a smith one time and he was very poor...”

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    ear to ear. The smith was working away in the forge and saw the black fella. "Ho" says he "is that you, you came in time anyway. I'm sort of busy today and have a good bit of work to do before I'd be ready to go. The fairy woman's chair was in the forge and the divil went and sat down in it saying, " I'll wait just one hour and then I'll drag you away with me whether your done working or not". "Very good" says the smith "but I'm afraid you'll stay longer in that chair than one hour". The smith worked away for about a half an hour and the says to the divil " I think I'll do no more and it is as good for us to be moving. The divil made an attempt

  10. (gan teideal)

    “There was a smith one time and he was goin' home late at night...”

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    and they started to play and they were playing away for a long time and the smith was winning off the divil like wan man, when they noticed another man coming along. This man was a carpenter and the divil bid him good night and asked him would he like to sit in and play a game of cards and of course the poor carpenter couldn’t refuse. So he sat in and they played away for about half an hour, and both the smith and the carpenter were taking all the money on the divil. The whole heap on the table was done and the divil got up and went off down the wood and told the smith and the carpenter not to stir until he came back. So the two poor fellows had nothing to do but obey. After sometime,

  11. Will-o'-the-wisp

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    Long long ago there was a smith. He was a very good smith and got a lot of work to do. After a while he started to drink like every good tradesman and it wasn't long until he was as poor as a church-mouse. He lost some of his trade then as well.
    One day he was in the forge sitting on the bench and [?] very down in the mouth, as he had drank an awful lot the day before and had no work to do this day. He was sitting there for a long time brooding over his sorrow in silence when a big black man walked into the forge. The poor smith got a fright as he never saw the like of such a man before. He was black all over

  12. (gan teideal)

    “There was a smith there wan time....”

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    There was a smith there wan time and he was supposed to be a mighty strong man.
    Wan day a strange man on horse back drove up to the door of the forge. He was a mighty strong looking man too.
    The man called the smith to bring him out a bit of fire for to light his pipe. When the smith saw the big man, he said to himself that he'd see how strong he was. He got some fire and put it up on the anvil. Then he caught the anvil in his hand and brought it out and

  13. Tom Smith

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    duit," arsan buachaill, ar sisean.
    "Well ní dh’fhágfad an áit," ar sisean, "nú do spáinfi’
    tú dhom," ar sisean, "seabhamara Tom Smith," ar sisean.
    "Téunam ort mar sin," ar sisean.
    D’imíodar ortha.
    "Ní oscalód a’ dorus in aochor ’uit," ar sisean "mar do bheithfá marbh," ar sisean, "agus Tom Smith marbh," ar sisean. "Ach nuair do mhaith leat é fhiscint," ar sisean, "cuir do shúil ar pholl a’ ghluis".
    Chuir sé a shúil ar pholl a’ ghluis agus a’ tséideóg teine a ghaibh amach trí pholl a’ ghluis chuigis leig sí an tsúil istig ’n-a cheann.
    "Ó Dia lé t-anam-sa," ar sisean, "a Tom Smíth".
    Nuair a chas sé ’mach is nuair a chonnaic Tom Smith a’ tsúil leachta ’n-a cheann ní
    mór ná thuit a’ t-anam as.
    "Ó Dia lé t-anam-sa a Tom Smith, ar sisean, trí h-uaire. "Téunam a Tom," ar sisean.
    D’imíodar agus agus do chuadar do dtí athair agus máthair Tom Smith agus d’fhiafhruig an sagart dóibh, do n-athair is do na mháthair a’

  14. An Fear go mBaineadh na Cluasa Dhó

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    mhinistir agus bhí cléireach age Father Kane i gClochán, Paddy Smith. Bhí mac age Paddy
    Smith go b’ainim do Robert Smith agus tímcheall có-mhaos [cómh-aos] b’eadh mac a’
    dhá chléirig. Well bhíodar na gcomáradaithe age na chéile agus do chuaidh Robert Smith, mac cléireach an t-Athair Seán Ó’ Chatháin mar 'helper' go dtí ’n ministir mar chléireach. Tógach
    'notice' do agus chonnacathas é agus dúbharthas, duine éicint
    leis a’ sagart. Do bhíos-sa istig i
    Sáipéal Chlocháin a’ lá san nuair a bhí seanamóin age ’n t-athair Seán.
    "D’fhiafhruíos," ar sisean, "do ’n-athair," ar sisean, "a’ raibh a
    leithéid i gceist," ar sisean, "agus dubhairt sé liom go
    raibh," ar sisean, "agus dá shéunfach sé orm é," ar sisean
    "bhí deire cléarais aige dom," ar sisean, "an fear bocht," ar sisean.
    Well bhí nach éinne úmpaithe i gcoinne Robert Smith mac a’ cléirig agus do tháinig Lord Ventry agus is sin é ’n bhliain roimis sin do cailleach
    athair an seana-Lord agus gur shocrui’ sé Burnham House (1) go léir. Thug sé (1) Tig Lord Venture i mBaile’n Ghóilín i bPar an Daingin.

  15. The Fairy Changeling

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    night and it also had some very strange and witty answers. One day when its father was ploughing he broke a certain part of it. He brought it to a lot of smiths but none of them could weld it. One evening he came home with the broken part after trying six or seven smiths and told his wife he would have to buy a new part for the plough. The child was listening while he was speaking, and says he. "You need never buy a new part Daddy" says he "but bring it to any smith you like and tell him to heat it in a flame the colour of a bees wing. The father got an awful fright when he heard the child talking like that but anyhow he brought it to a smith and told him what the

  16. (gan teideal)

    “There was a smith one time and he was very poor...”

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    There was a smith one time and he was very poor in the wind up that he prayed to the divil to send him some money.
    One day he was working away in the forge when the divil walked in. They were talking for some time and then the divil asked him did he want any money, he said he did cos he was almost hungry. The divil told him he would give him money on condition and the condition were that he would give him enough money to keep him for a "twelvmonth" and then to come with him. The smith was satisfied and told the divil

  17. (gan teideal)

    “There was a smith one time and he was very poor...”

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    him he wasn't good enough. He went off then until he came to the gates of hell. When he was going down the narrow passage the divil saw him and was afraid to let him in for he was too clever for them. So he told him he couldn't let him in. "Well" says the smith "I may as well go back on the world again then", and he started to go up the dark passage, but he couldn't find his way, so he went back and asked the divil to light a wisp of straw and give it to him to show him light. The divil did so and the wisp of straw never went out, and the smith is travelling around the world still, and he is known by the name of "Willie the Wisp".

  18. (gan teideal)

    “There was once a man living in the parish of Adamstown.”

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    plough. The child was listening with all his ears in the cradle. “You don’t need to buy a new plough, Daddy” says he “go up to Enniscorthy where there is a good smith and tell him to weld that plough- iron between a blue and a red flame.” Tom Murphy got an awful fright when he heard this talk coming from his son and he scarcely eleven months old.
    He yoked the horse and drove into Enniscorthy and told the smith what the child had said This was one of the most famous smiths in Wexford at the time, and he wondered greatly at what the child had said. “Tom Murphy” says he “that is one of the greatest secrets of my trade and not many smiths in Wexford know it but myself, its my opinion its a fairy-

  19. Micky the Smith turns Theologian

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    “Micky the Smith turns Theologian”
    Micky the Smith's forge was always a great place for a crowd. He was a great smith, about the besht in the county, an’ nearly everywan ushed ta come to him to get their work done. All the horshes from Ballindoon ushed ta be sent out to him to be shod, an’ if there was anything wrong wit the carriage either, twas Micky who got the job o' repairin’ it, if the repairs was in his line o' business
    Anyway Protestants an’ Catholics alike ushed ta come

  20. (gan teideal)

    “There was a smith there wan time....”

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    handed it up to the man on the horse. The man on horseback took the anvil from him and turned the fire into his pipe and handed back the anvil to the smith. He thanked him and drove away about his business.