The Children of Lir

  • The Children of Lir
    The Children of Lir
    By Sheila MacGill-Callahan

    A haunting Irish legend, believed by some to be the basis for King Lear.

  • The Children of Lir: An Irish Legend
    The Children of Lir: An Irish Legend
    By Alexandra Soranescu

    The Children of Lir is an Irish Mythology which tells the story of King Lir and his four sons and daughters that were changed into magical swans by their evil step mother Aoife.

  • The Children of Lir: Ireland's Favourite Legend
    The Children of Lir: Ireland's Favourite Legend
    By Laura Ruth Maher

    This charming rhyming story tells the legend of The Children of Lir, who were turned into swans by their wicked stepmother and forced to wander across Ireland for 900 years.

  • The children of Lir
    The children of Lir

    The children of a king in Ireland are turned into swans by his wicked wife for nine hundred years, until the ringing of a Christian bell breaks the spell and begins a new age.

  • The Children of Lir: A Celtic Legend
    The Children of Lir: A Celtic Legend
    By Dawn Casey

    Retelling of the Celtic legend in which a king's children are changed into swans by their evil stepmother.

  • The Children of Lir
    The Children of Lir
    By Michael Scott, Jim Fitzpatrick

    The Children of Lir

  • The Children of Lir: Clann Lir
    By Déaglán Collinge

    The Children of Lir: Clann Lir