Irish folk history Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Saints
	Saint Patrick	21
	Saint Naile	23
	Islands of Saints and Scholars	25
	Saint Febor	28
	Saint Columcille	29
2	War
	The Ford of Biscuits	35
	The Taking of Red Hugh O'Donnell	35
	The Battle of the Biscuit Ford	41
	Black Francis	47
	Mackan Fight	52
	The Tossing of the Chapel at Swanlinbar	64
	The Swad Chapel Song	67
	The Band	70
	The Brookeborough Raid	76
	Sean South	77
	The Flag That Floats Above Us	78
3	The Land
	Days of the Landlords	83
	Mrs. Timoney's Remarkable Walk	88
	The Famine	92
	Mr. McBrien	95
	Castle Garden	96
	Skibbereen	97
	Lovely Erne's Shore	98
	A Lovely Country	99
	The Fermanagh Song	100
4	The People
	Life	103
	Slapbrick	108
	The Man Who Would Not Carry Hay	111
	William Quigley	112
	Stories	113
	John Brodison	115
	George Armstrong	117
	James Quigley	121
	Hugh McGiveney	125
	Songs	130
	Maxwell's Ball	131
	The Star of Ballymenone	134
	Charlie Farmer	136
	Notes	147