Irish Stories and Folklore: A Collection of Thirty-Six Classic Tales

Ireland's Finest Writers Together in an Entertaining and Humorous Anthology

For a comparatively small country, Ireland's contributions to the world of literature have been enormous. From the older tradition, Irish writers have inherited a sense of wonder in the face of nature, a narrative style that tends toward the deliberately exaggerated or absurd, and a keen sense of the power of satire. These themes carry through the entire canon of Irish literature, up until modern times. Stephen Bren...