--- title: II. Guleesh. — Celtic Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: II. Guleesh., «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: _Source_.--From Dr. Douglas Hyde's _Beside the Fire_, 104-28, where it is a translation from the same author's _Leabhar Sgeulaighteachta_. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/36/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / II. Guleesh. # II. Guleesh. II. Guleesh. of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 8 sentences and 226 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/36/1/) — \_Source\_.--From Dr. Douglas Hyde's \_Beside the Fire\_, 104-28, where it is a translation from the same author's \_Leabhar Sgeulaighteachta\_. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/36/2/) — Dr Hyde got it from one Shamus O'Hart, a gamekeeper of Frenchpark. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/36/3/) — One is curious to know how far the very beautiful landscapes in the story are due to Dr. Hyde, who confesses to have only taken notes. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/36/4/) — I have omitted a journey to Rome, paralleled, as Mr. Nutt has pointed out, by the similar one of Michael Scott (\_Waifs and Strays\_, i. 46), and not bearing on the main lines of the story. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/36/5/) — I have also dropped a part of Guleesh's name: in the original he is "Guleesh na guss dhu," Guleesh of the black feet, because he never washed them; nothing turns on this in the present form of the story, but one cannot but suspect it was of importance in the original form. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/36/6/) — \_Parallels\_.--Dr. Hyde refers to two short stories, "Midnight Ride" (to Rome) and "Stolen Bride," in Lady Wilde's \_Ancient Legends\_. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/36/7/) — But the closest parallel is given by Miss Maclintock's Donegal tale of "Jamie Freel and the Young Lady," reprinted in Mr. Yeats' \_Irish Folk and Fairy Tales\_, 52-9. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/36/8/) — In the \_Hibernian Tales\_, "Mann o' Malaghan and the Fairies," as reported by Thackeray in the \_Irish Sketch-Book\_, c. xvi., begins like "Guleesh." - ← previous: [I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/35/) - next →: [III. Field of Boliauns.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/37/) - ↑ back to [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/)