Irish folklore leprechaun, banshees, changelings and many others. The origin of these Irish fairies could be dated back to the ancient Celtic beliefs of pagan Gods and supernatural beings. However, there is no linear path that traces the development of fairy lore in Ireland from its origin. Irish fairy lore has influenced many English authors, such as Jonathan Swift, who wrote Gulliver's Travels while living in Ireland. Ó Súilleabháin was part of the Irish Folklore Commission, "Béaloideas". Not long after the foundation of the commission he created two books for the collectors. The first, in 1937, a shorter volume in the Irish
At the End of the Rainbow mind-boggling children's film, straight from the mid-Sixties, when Americans would dump their youth at the local theater's "Kiddie Matinee" and subject the poor tots to all manner of cinematic torture. Such as "The Princess and the Magic Frog", a long-unseen rarity that's so hilariously impoverished, it makes "Jimmy, the Boy Wonder" look like a multimillion-dollar work of art. [...] There's more that a whiff of "Wizard of Oz" wafting through "The Princess and the Magic Frog", from the child who can't find his way home, to the Wicked Witch, er...Wizard, to the search for the end of the rainbow." With