These stories were dedicated to the Irish poet Æ, George William Russell, and Yeats described them as being about "but one subject, the war of spiritual with natural order." He spends the rest of his life wandering, sometimes charming women with his words, and sometimes being defeated by them. After playing for hours, Hanrahan wanders out into the mountains and finds a sleeping queen, with four crones holding the four treasures of Ireland.* Like Percival in the Grail quest, he is afraid to ask the important questions, and so he is banished to wander forever, touched by the Sidhe. He gets a message from his sweetheart, summoning him to help her, but first a strange man insists that he play cards for a little while. Stories of Red Hanrahan - these seem to have been written at different times, all about Owen "Red" Hanrahan, who starts off a young schoolteacher.
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