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• Beside the Fire: A Collection of Irish Gaelic Folk Stories (second edition), by Douglas Hyde, contrib. by Alfred Nutt (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, ed. by W. B. Yeats
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text
• The Banshee (London and Edinburgh: Sands and Co., n.d.), by Elliott O'Donnell
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Old Stories and Sayings of Great Britain and Ireland (London: C. W. Daniel, ca. 1911), ed. by Isabella Fyvie Mayo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, trans. by Lady Gregory, contrib. by W. B. Yeats (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland, trans. by Lady Gregory, contrib. by W. B. Yeats
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text
• Heroic Romances of Ireland, ed. by Arthur Herbert Leahy (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Heroic Romances of Ireland, ed. by Arthur Herbert Leahy (Gutenberg text)
• Old Celtic Romances, Translated from the Gaelic (second edition; London: D. Nutt, 1894), trans. by P. W. Joyce (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old Celtic Romances, Translated from the Gaelic (Dublin: Education Co. of Ireland; London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1920), trans. by P. W. Joyce (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living (main text, plus some editorial material), ed. by Kuno Meyer (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Deirdre of the Sorrows, by J. M. Synge (Gutenberg text)

• Early Bardic Literature, Ireland, by Standish O'Grady (Gutenberg text)

• The Celtic Twilight, by W. B. Yeats
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text

• Celtic Wonder-Tales, by Ella Young, illust. by Maud Gonne (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Irish Fairy Tales, by James Stephens (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Irish Fairy Tales (London: Macmillan and Co., 1920), by James Stephens, illust. by Arthur Rackham (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Irish Fairy Tales (London: T. F. Unwin, 1892), ed. by W. B. Yeats, illust. by Jack B. Yeats
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The King of Ireland's Son, by Padraic Colum (Gutenberg text)
• The King of Ireland's Son, by Padraic Colum, illust. by Willy Pogány (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland, by Jeremiah Curtin (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, ed. by W. B. Yeats
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text
• Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (ca. 1825), by Thomas Crofton Croker (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (seventh edition, ca. 1906), by Thomas Crofton Croker, ed. by Thomas Wright, illust. by Daniel Maclise and W. T. Green (illustrated HTML at libraryireland.com)

• Donegal Fairy Stories, by Seumas MacManus (HTML at Baldwin Project)

• Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World, Collected from Oral Tradition in South-West Munster, by Jeremiah Curtin (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (London: David Nutt, 1904), trans. by L. Winifred Faraday (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Folk-Tales From Many Lands (c1939), by Rose Fyleman (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Book of Noodles: Stories of Simpletons, or, Fools and Their Follies, by W. A. Clouston (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Zanzibar Tales, Told by Natives of the East Coast of Africa (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1901), trans. by George W. Bateman, illust. by Walter Bobbett (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Folk-Tales of Angola: Fifty Tales, With Ki-Mbundu Text, Literal English Translation, Introduction, and Notes (1894), ed. by Héli Chatelain
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Arabian Nights (1-volume version), trans. by Richard Francis Burton (HTML at dasburo.com)
• The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments (full 16-volume version; includes Supplemental Nights), trans. by Richard Francis Burton (frame-dependent HTML at wollamshram.ca)
• The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Now First Done Completely into English Prose and Verse, From the Original Arabic (9 volumes), ed. by John Payne (frame-dependent HTML at wollamshram.ca)
• Tales from the Arabic of the Breslau and Calcutta (1814-18) Editions of The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Not Occurring in the Other Printed Texts of the Work (Delhi edition, 1901), ed. by John Payne
  • frame-dependent HTML at wollamshram.ca
  • Gutenberg text
• The Arabian Nights Entertainments, by Andrew Lang
  • Gutenberg text
  • frame-dependent HTML at wollamshram.ca
• The Arabian Nights Entertainments, by Andrew Lang, illust. by H. J. Ford (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Arabian Nights Entertainments ("Aldine" edition; London: Pickering and Chatto, 1890), ed. by Jonathan Scott
  • Gutenberg text
  • frame-dependent HTML at wollamshram.ca
• The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909), ed. by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith, illust. by Maxfield Parrish
  • page images at LOC
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
• Stories From The Thousand and One Nights, ed. by Stanley Lane-Poole, trans. by Edward William Lane (HTML at Bartleby)

• Shambhala, by Nicholas Roerich (HTML at roerich.org)

• Australian Legendary Tales: Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs as Told to the Picaninnies (second edition, 1897), by K. Langloh Parker, contrib. by Andrew Lang (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Australian Legendary Tales: Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs as Told to the Picaninnies, by K. Langloh Parker, contrib. by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
• The Stone Axe of Burkamukk (London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock and Co., 1902), by Mary Grant Bruce, illust. by J. MacFarlane (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Some Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines, by W. E. Thomas (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• The Dawn of the World: Myths and Weird Tales Told by the Mewan Indians of California, by C. Hart Merriam (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• "Wer ist Mein Nächster?" Negertypen aus Deutschwestafrika (in German; Berlin: Gose und Tetzlaff, 1903), by Paula Karsten
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Canadian Wonder Tales, by Cyrus MacMillan, illust. by George Sheringham (illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project)

• Myths and Legends of China, by E. T. C. Werner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Mongo Proverbs and Fables (1921), by E. A. Ruskin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort (French Congo) (London: Pub. for the Folk-Lore Society by David Nutt, 1898), by R. E. Dennett, contrib. by Mary Henrietta Kingsley
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org

More items available under broader and related terms at left.