The King of Ireland’s Son

Author: Padraic Colum Genre: Irish Fairy Tale (published in 1916) Reading Time for Text: Approx. 6 hours Audio: This audio is provided by Librivox.org. Running time is 5 hr 57 minutes. [audio:http://ia600601.us.archive.org/29/items/king_irelands_son_dwj_librivox/kingofirelandsson_01_colum_64kb.mp3|titles= Chapter 1: Fedelma] [audio:http://ia600601.us.archive.org/29/items/king_irelands_son_dwj_librivox/kingofirelandsson_02_colum_64kb.mp3|titles= Chapter 2: The King of Cats] [audio:http://ia700601.us.archive.org/29/items/king_irelands_son_dwj_librivox/kingofirelandsson_03_colum_64kb.mp3|titles= Chapter 3: The Sword of Light Part 1] [audio:http://ia700601.us.archive.org/29/items/king_irelands_son_dwj_librivox/kingofirelandsson_04_colum_64kb.mp3|titles= Chapter 4: The Sword of Light Part 2] [audio:http://ia600601.us.archive.org/29/items/king_irelands_son_dwj_librivox/kingofirelandsson_05_colum_64kb.mp3|titles= Chapter 5: The Town of the Red Castle] [audio:http://ia600601.us.archive.org/29/items/king_irelands_son_dwj_librivox/kingofirelandsson_06_colum_64kb.mp3|titles= Chapter 6: The King of the Land of Mist] [audio:http://ia700601.us.archive.org/29/items/king_irelands_son_dwj_librivox/kingofirelandsson_07_colum_64kb.mp3|titles= Chapter 7: The House of Crom Duv] [audio:http://ia700601.us.archive.org/29/items/king_irelands_son_dwj_librivox/kingofirelandsson_08_colum_64kb.mp3|titles= Chapter 8: The Spae Woman] Background: This classic childrens’ story is written by Padraic Colum. As a collector of Irish folk tales, Colum translated many of them from Gaelic (the ancient Irish language) into English. Several of these tales are weaved together in this epic adventure. At first the stories all seem to be disconnected, but in the end, they are creatively and delightfully tied together. Text: The text for this story can be found at The Baldwin Project.

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