Kennedy, Patrick
Kennedy, Patrick (1801–73),Irish folklorist, Dublin bookseller, and collector and preserver of the varied tales of County Wexford. Author of the important Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts (1866), Kennedy is thought of as one of the fathers of the Irish folklore revival and is thus associated with the Celtic literary renaissance. Much of his early work was originally written for the Dublin University Magazine, though he used the pseudonym of Harry Whitney to publish Legends of Mount Leinster in 1855. Fearing that the tales he had heard as a child were in the process of being lost, he produced not only Legendary Fictions but The Banks of the Boro (1867), The Fireside Stories of Ireland (1870), and The Bardic Stories of Ireland (1871). His Fireside Stories are reminiscent of the Grimms' Kinder‐ und...
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