Tales of old Ireland / edited by Michael O'Mara
1994, First Edition. London : Michael O'Mara. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, slightly dust-dulled and edge-bumped dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Spine lightly sun-toned. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #475895
ISBN: 1854799819
Physical description; viii, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Contents; Foreword / by Michael O'Mara -- Neal Malone / William Carleton -- Wildgoose Lodge / William Carleton -- The gridiron / Samuel Lover -- The stolen sheep / John Banim -- Daniel O'Rourke / Thomas Crofton Croker -- The dilemma of Phadrig / Gerald Griffin -- Home sickness / George Moore -- Some parishioners / George Moore -- A spoiled priest / Canon Sheehan -- The holy island / [E.Œ.] Somerville and [Martin] Ross -- The twisting of the rope / W.B. Yeats -- The Reverend Peter Flannery / Frank Mathew -- Rosanna / Agnes Castle -- They that mourn / Shan F. Bullock -- The bewitched fiddle / Seamas Macmanus - The breath of life / Daniel Corkery -- The rector / Seamus O'Kelly -- The dead / James Joyce. Subjects; 1800 - 1899. Short stories, Irish. Manners and customs. Ireland Social life and customs 19th century ; Fiction. Ireland. English fiction.
Price: €18.95