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
Sèvres pot-pourri vase in the shape of a ship with no lid, the "cuvette à masques", produced from 1754 (earliest example, at Houghton Hall), and the shape of the "pot pourri à vaisseau" was also used in an adaptation as a lidded tureen with a stand, the "terrine gondole" from at least 1757 (two in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna), and a different "pot pourri gondole". The popularity of Sèvres porcelain with English collectors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is demonstrated by the presence of all ten known examples of this shape of vase in English collections by the mid-nineteenth century. Today there is one in France, five