• The King of Ireland's Son is a children's novel published in Ireland in 1916 written by Padraic Colum, and illustrated by Willy Pogany. It is the story...
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    Tales. The second was retold as "When the King of the Cats Came to King Connal's Dominion" in Padraic Colum's 1916 book The King of Ireland's Son. Cats...
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    "Art, the King's son, and Balor Beimenach, Two Sons-in-Law of King under the Wave", Hero-tales of Ireland, pp. 312–334 "King of Ireland's Son", Mackillop...
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    Willy Pogany (category Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States)
    utilized a variety of media in his illustrations. Pogany's beautiful and bizarre illustrations for Padraic Colum's The King of Ireland's Son use brilliant...
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    was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United...
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    King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of...
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    The King of Ireland's Son, in the chapter The Unique Tale: the queen wishes for a blue-eyed, blonde-haired daughter, and carelessly wishes her sons to...
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    Swan maiden (redirect from The Swan Maiden)
    Hemlock. Irish novelist and author Padraic Colum reworked a series of Irish legends in his book The King of Ireland's Son, among them the tale of the swan...
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  • 2017. Irish Folktales. ed. Henry Glassie. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. p. 350. ISBN 9780307828248. Colum, Padraic (1916). The King of Ireland's Son. New...
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    by his son Edward VI. Born on 28 June 1491 at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich, Kent, Henry Tudor was the third child and second son of King Henry...
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    27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English...
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    High King of Ireland (Irish: Ardrí na hÉireann [ˈaːɾˠd̪ˠˌɾˠiː n̪ˠə ˈheːɾʲən̪ˠ]) was a royal title in Gaelic Ireland held by those who had, or who are claimed...
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    February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his...
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    Republic of Ireland. Northern Ireland, as part of the United Kingdom, remains under a monarchical system of government. The office of High King of Ireland effectively...
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    Padraic Colum (category Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters)
    of collections of stories for children, beginning with The King of Ireland's Son (1916). This book came about when Colum started translating an Irish...
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    born during the reign of his paternal grandmother, Queen Victoria, as the second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen...
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    the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702. As King of Scotland, he is known as...
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    (Middle Irish: Brian Bóruma mac Cennétig; modern Irish: Brian Bóramha; c. 941 – 23 April 1014) was an Irish king who ended the domination of the High Kingship...
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    1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837. The third son of George III...
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  • "The Thirteenth Son of the King of Erin" is an Irish fairy tale collected by Jeremiah Curtin in Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland. A king had thirteen sons...
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    S. – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II...
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    Aos Sí (category Articles containing Irish-language text)
    (1916). The King of Ireland's Son. New York: H. Holt and Company Retrieved from Project Gutenberg via [1] 24 November 2017 Colum, Padraic (1918). The Boy...
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    1683 – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11...
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    "beloved one") was a Jewish monarch of ancient Israel and the third king of the United Kingdom of Israel, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament....
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    1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 29 January 1820 until his death in 1830. At the time of his accession...
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    second son of the king, Albert was not expected to inherit the throne. He spent his early life in the shadow of his elder brother, Edward, the heir apparent...
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    1166 to 1198. He was the last High King of Ireland before the Anglo-Norman invasion. Ruaidrí was one of over twenty sons of King Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair...
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    descendants as the future royal heirs. The Crown passed from Queen Anne to Sophia's son, King George I, as Sophia had already died. Queen Anne and King George...
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    reworked a series of Irish legends in his book The King of Ireland's Son, among them the tale of the Fellow in the Goatskin. In this book, the author interlaced...
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    what became the religious English Reformation and Scottish Reformation, and the English king became King of Ireland. Beginning in 1603, the English and...
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