| 1 | The Fox and the Heron | 3 |
| 2 | The Fox and the Eagle | 6 |
| 3 | The Fox in Inishkea | 7 |
| 4 | The Magpie and the Fox | 8 |
| 5 | Two Women or Twelve Men | 10 |
| 6 | The Grateful Weasel | 10 |
| 7 | The Man Who Swallowed the Mouse | 12 |
| 8 | The Cat and the Dog | 13 |
| 9 | The Sow and Her Banbb | 14 |
| 10 | The Old Crow Teaches the Young Crow | 14 |
| 11 | The Cold May Night | 15 |
| 12 | The King Who Could Not Sleep | 21 |
| 13 | Ceatach | 38 |
| 14 | Fionn in Search of His Youth | 57 |
| 15 | The Coming of Oscar | 60 |
| 16 | Cuchulainn and the Smith's Wife | 74 |
| 17 | Young Conall of Howth | 79 |
| 18 | Art, King of Leinster | 97 |
| 19 | The Speckled Bull | 117 |
| 20 | The Boy Who Became Pope | 133 |
| 21 | The Man Who Struck His Father | 136 |
| 22 | The Friar on Errigal | 144 |
| 23 | How God's Wheel Turns | 149 |
| 24 | The Man Who Was Rescued from Hell | 151 |
| 25 | The Hour of Death | 165 |
| 26 | The Fairy Frog | 169 |
| 27 | The Fairy Wife | 171 |
| 28 | Fairy Money | 174 |
| 29 | The Children of the Dead Woman | 176 |
| 30 | The Three Laughs of the Leipreachan | 179 |
| 31 | The Man Who Had No Story | 182 |
| 32 | Doctor Lee and Little Aran | 184 |
| 33 | The Child from the Sea | 188 |
| 34 | The Big Cat and the Big Rat | 189 |
| 35 | The March Cock and the Coffin | 191 |
| 36 | Sean na Banoige | 192 |
| 37 | The Queen of the Planets | 205 |
| 38 | Sean Palmer's Voyage to America with the Fairies | 209 |
| 39 | The Sailor and the Rat | 223 |
| 40 | The Girl and the Sailor | 223 |
| 41 | The Four-leafed Shamrock and the Cock | 225 |
| 42 | The Black Art | 227 |
| 43 | Daniel O'Connell and the Trickster | 231 |
| 44 | O'Connell Wears His Hat in Parliament | 232 |
| 45 | The Smell of Money for the Smell of Food | 233 |
| 46 | The Heather Beer | 234 |
| 47 | The Man Who Lost His Shadow | 235 |
| 48 | Cromwell and the Friar | 237 |
| 49 | Damer's Gold | 240 |
| 50 | Secret Tokens Prove Ownership | 245 |
| 51 | The Cow That Ate the Piper | 247 |
| 52 | Sean na Scuab | 248 |
| 53 | The Great Liar | 249 |
| 54 | The Uglier Foot | 252 |
| 55 | The Blacksmith and the Horseman | 253 |
| Notes to the Tales | 255 |
| Glossary | 290 |
| Bibliography | 293 |
| Index of Motifs | 298 |
| Index of Tale Types | 305 |
| General Index | 307 |