Download or read book Beanntaichean Gorma Agus Sgeulachdan Eile À Ceap Breatainn written by John Shaw and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Shaw has been documenting Cape Breton's Gaelic traditions since the 1960s. In The Blue Mountains and Other Gaelic Stories from Cape Breton he presents thirty tales recorded between 1964 and 1989. The collection includes popular tales such as The Dragon Slayer, hero-tales of Fionn Mac Cumhail and his warrior band, accounts of the famed carpenter Boban Saor, stories of robbers and thieves, comic tall tales, historical legends, and accounts of clan traditions brought over from the western Highlands.