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The King of Ireland's Son

by Padraic Colum & Gerard Doyle Dr

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: FictionJuvenile
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"The King of Ireland's Son" by Padraic Colum is a children's novel published in 1916. The eldest son of Ireland's king embarks on magical adventures to win Fedelma, the Enchanter's Daughter. After winning her hand, she is kidnapped by the King of the Land of Mist, launching the prince on a quest to find her. This classic weaves together Irish folklore and fireside tales into an interwoven narrative of enchantment, filled with talking eagles, swan maidens, difficult tasks, and mysterious characters. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from online-books-page, openlibrary, and project-gutenberg matched “Fairy tales”, “Folk literature”, “folklore”, and 3 additional term(s). Retained metadata contains “Folklore” in the description, “Tales” in the description, “Fairy tales” in the subject metadata, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Fairy tales”· via The Online Books Page
    • “Tales”· via The Online Books Page
    • “Folk literature”· via Open Library
    • “folklore”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “mythology”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “tales”· via Project Gutenberg

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Editions

Open Library reports 60 editions; 4 cataloged here.

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1916MacmillanEnglish—Public

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Cataloging notes

  • Illustrators: Pogány, Willy
  • Open Library reports 60 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): PR6005 .O38 K5
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openlibrary-work:OL2635379W
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