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•  The Irish Fairy Book • (1909) • interior artwork by George Denham
• v • A Faery Song • (1891) • poem by W. B. Yeats
• vii • Preface (excerpt-The Irish Fairy Book) • (1909) • essay by Alfred Perceval Graves
• 1 • The Three Crowns • (1866) • short story by Patrick Kennedy
• 15 • The Grateful Beasts • (1870) • short story by Patrick Kennedy
• 21 • The Lepracaun or Fairy Shoemaker • (1909) • poem by William Allingham (variant of The Lepracaun, or, Fairy Shoemaker 1865)
• 25 • Daniel O'Rourke • (1825) • short story by William Maginn
• 36 • Cuchulain of Muirthemne (The Birth of Cuchulain) • (1902) • short story by Lady Gregory
• 44 • The Boyhood of Cuchulain • (1909) • short story by Standish James O'Grady (variant of Boyhood of Cuculain 1878)
• 52 • The Legend of Knockgrafton • (1888) • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker [as by T. Crofton Croker]
• 60 • The Stolen Child • (1886) • poem by W. B. Yeats
• 63 • Lay of Oisin in the Land of Youth • (1859) • short story by Michael Comyn
• 79 • The Adventures of Gilla na Chreck an Gour • (1866) • short story by Patrick Kennedy (variant of Adventures of Gilla na Chreck an Gour)
• 91 • The Hillman and the Housewife • juvenile • (1870) • short story by Juliana Horatia Ewing
• 94 • Jamie Freel and the Young Lady • (1877) • short story by Letitia Maclintock
• 104 • A Legend of Knockmany • (1841) • short story by William Carleton
• 121 • The White Trout • (1831) • short story by Samuel Lover (variant of The White Trout: A Legend of Cong)
• 126 • The Wonderful Cake • (1870) • short story by Patrick Kennedy
• 128 • The Legend of the Little Weaver of Duleek Gate • (1834) • short story by Samuel Lover
• 142 • Mor of Cloyne • (1901) • poem by Alfred Perceval Graves (variant of More of Cloyne)
• 143 • Lawn Dyarrig and the Knight of Terrible Valley • (1909) • short story by Jeremiah Curtin (variant of Lawn Dyarrig, Son of the King of Erin, and the Knight of Terrible Valley 1894)
• 161 • The Horned Women • (1877) • short story by Lady Wilde
• 165 • The Quare Gander • [The Purcell Papers • 4] • (1840) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• 178 • The Fairies' Passage • (1848) • poem by James Clarence Mangan
• 182 • The King of the Black Desert • (1898) • short story by Douglas Hyde
• 201 • The Piper and the Púca • (1888) • short story by Douglas Hyde
• 206 • The Talking Head of Donn-bo • (1908) • short story by Eleanor Hull
• 210 • The Demon Cat • (1887) • short story by Lady Wilde
• 213 • Morraha • (1893) • short story by W. Larminie
• 231 • The Kildare Pooka • (1866) • short story by Patrick Kennedy
• 236 • Murtough and the Witch-Woman • (1909) • short story by Eleanor Hull
• 251 • King O'Toole and St. Kevin • (1909) • short story by Samuel Lover (variant of King O'Toole and His Goose 1831)
• 260 • The Corpse Watchers • (1866) • short story by Patrick Kennedy
• 264 • The Mad Pudding of Ballyboulteen • (1909) • short story by William Carleton (variant of Moll Roe's Marriage; or, The Pudding Bewitched 1841)
• 282 • The Voyage of Maeldune • (1880) • poem by Alfred Tennyson
• 293 • The Coming of Finn • juvenile • (1892) • short story by Standish James O'Grady
• 307 • Epilogue (The Irish Fairy Book) • (1909) • essay by Alfred Perceval Graves [as by S. P. G.]