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Séadna

Peadar Ó Laoghaire

191664 pagesabout 1 hour
1916
first published
  • 1916Irish Book Co. · 291 pages · ENG
  • 1989Glendale Press · 160 pages · ENGISBN 9780907606604
  • Cois Life Teoranta · 64 pages · ENGISBN 9781901176001

The most famous story of Peadar Ó Laoghaire, who told it as a fireside story to three little girls. Séadna was the first major literary work of the emerging Gaelic revival. It was serialised in the Gaelic Journal from 1894, and published in book form in 1904. The plot of the story concerns a deal that the shoemaker Séadna struck with "the Dark Man". Although the story is rooted in the folklore the writer heard from shanachies by the fire during his youth, it is also closely related to the German legend of Faust. - From English Wikipedia

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