Classic Irish Stories: Timeless Tales from Ireland and Other Green Shores - Softcover

9781592284207: Classic Irish Stories: Timeless Tales from Ireland and Other Green Shores

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ISBN 10: 1592284205 ISBN 13: 9781592284207

Publisher: Lyons Pr, 2005

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A unique collection of ageless literary gems from both celebrated and little-known Irish writers.

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Explore what it means to be Irish with this compelling and uncommon collection of stories.
Featuring both famous authors and forgotten ones, these twenty literary gems offer a colorful kaleidoscope of perspectives on the Irish people and their character. Here are stories of daring patriots and reluctant warriors, magical musicians and young lovers, conniving landlords and hearty peasants, greenhorn immigrants and longtime transplants with an undying love of the old country. From the hills of Connemara to the streets of New York and the deserts of North Africa, these stories bring to light the odyssey of the intrepid Irish. They are sure to inspire, entertain, and enlighten-or at the very least, make you smile.

With works from:

Liam O'Flaherty, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Butler Yeats, Sarah Orne Jewett, George Moore, Frank Mathew, Samuel Lover, Bram Stoker, Katharine Tynan, Ellis N. Myles, Finley Peter Dunne, T. Crofton Croker, William Larminie, Lady Gregory, William M. Thackeray, Alexander Young, John McElgun, George A. Birmingham, Kate Douglas Wiggin

About the Author:

MICHAEL P. QUINLIN has written hundreds of articles on Irish culture, politics, and history for the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Irish America magazine, and other publications. He attended the School of Irish Studies in Dublin, where he studied poetry with Eavan Boland and fiction with Benedict Kiely. In the early nineties he created Boston's Irish Writers Series, which featured the leading poets, novelists, scholars, and storytellers of Ireland and Irish America. He lives in Milton, Massachusetts.

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