Stories of Ireland

A collection of delightful short stories from one of Ireland's greatest ever writers, Brian Friel A fake! A quack! A charlatan! Get a grip on yourself, woman! Well say another rosary and then Ill leave you home. Stories of Ireland is a brilliant, colourful compendium of mid-century Irish experience from one of Irelands greatest ever writers, Brian Friel. Demonstrating all of Friels peerless instinct for voice, scene, and the uncanny mystery found in the everyday, these tales tell of beauty, struggle and discovery: from the drowning of a man in the bog-black waters of Lough Keeragh, to the camaraderie of teenage potato gathers in County Tyrone, and from the careful work of the German War Graves Commission in Glenn na fuiseog, to trawlermens talk of sunken gold off the coast of Donegal. 'Some of the best stories ever written. They are everything short stories should be deft, skilfully written, funny and quite often breathlessly sad' Edna O'Brien