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Reflecting the oral storytelling tradition of rural Ireland, an evocative anthology of twenty-three traditional Irish ghost stories and fairy tales includes "The Magic Ship," "The Legend of Knockmany," and "The Soul Cages" and is accompanied by forty striking photographs. 15,000 first printing.
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John Lowings is a freelance photographer born of an Irish mother and an English father. Educated at the London College of Printing, which has an international reputation for photojournalism, Lowings lives in Bristol, England.
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"I have not chosen these tales to be safe, lightweight entertainment," writes Anglo-Irish photographer Lowings in his introduction to this illustrated collection. "I have chosen them because they touch on primeval fears and fascinations that, even now, flood up from within us to fill the darkness outside." Indeed, these 23 ghost stories and fairy tales (gathered from mostly 19th-century folklorists, among them Lady Wilde, T. Crofton Croker and Douglas Hyde) are more suitable for the bedside than the coffee table, Lowings's highly imaginative 40 photographs notwithstanding. Since Lowings has, on his own admission, "never been able to photograph a fairy fort," he settles for desolate landscapes whose fence posts, farmsteads and ruins trace a vanished human presence. None is "enchanted" in the ordinary sense; instead, these images conjure up a countryside as full of ghosts as its stories used to be.
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- PublisherHenry Holt & Co
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0805054006
- ISBN 13 9780805054002
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages172
- EditorLowings John
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