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D. R. (David Russell) McAnally

1847–1909

Best known for gathering Irish folklore into lively, readable form, this 19th-century American writer helped preserve stories of fairies, banshees, giants, and other marvels of the Emerald Isle. He also worked in academia, linking literary scholarship with a strong interest in traditional storytelling.

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Irish Wonders The Ghosts, Giants, Pooka, Demons, Leprechawns, Banshees, Fairies, Witches, Widows, Old Maids, and other Marvels of the Emerald Isle

Irish Wonders The Ghosts, Giants, Pooka, Demons, Leprechawns, Banshees, Fairies, Witches, Widows, Old Maids, and other Marvels of the Emerald Isle

by D. R. (David Russell) McAnally

About the author

David Russell McAnally (1847–1909), often published as D. R. McAnally, Jr., was an American writer and scholar. Available reference pages identify him as chairman of English literature at the University of Missouri, and he is now remembered chiefly for Irish Wonders (1888), a collection centered on Irish folklore and popular tradition.

His work brings together tales of ghosts, pookas, leprechauns, banshees, fairies, witches, and other figures from Irish storytelling. The book’s broad, curious tone helped make it one of the enduring older collections in this area, and it is still widely circulated in reprints and public-domain editions.

Reliable sources located for this overview provide only limited biographical detail beyond his dates, academic role, and published work. No clearly verifiable portrait image was found on the pages reviewed, so a profile image is not included here.