Few Countries can boast such a plentitude of traditional folktales as Ireland. In 1935, the creation of The Irish Folklore Commission set in motion the first organized efforts of assembling and studying a multitude of folktales, both written as well as those of the Irish oral tradition and has collected well over a million pages of manuscripts. Folktales of Ireland offers chief archivist Sean O\'Sullivan\'s representation of this volume. These tales represent the first English language compilation of Gaelic folktales.