Books by Russell Walton

Russell Walton
A Harp of Fishbones: Folk tales of the Harp
White Row Press, Belfast, 1992
Paperback, stickers to inside front cover & ffep obscuring ownership stamp, otherwise good. £25
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This slim paperback contains a curious mixture. As well as a good selection of mystical and mythological tales from early medieval Irish manuscripts, there are also more recent folk tales and memoirs and reminiscences of the 18th and 19th Century Irish harpers. The tales are all re-written for the book but seem fairly close to their source texts. (Not to be confused with Joan Aiken's 1972 collection "A Harp of Fishbones and other stories".)