SHORT TALES FROM HIGH STOOLS: A COLLECTION OF PINT-SIZE STORIES FROM WEST KERRY
Published by Utter Press (Dingle Bookshop), 2017
- Softcover
- Used
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"This book was written in the days when anyone could walk in to a pub in Ireland, and have a drink with a complete stranger. That was the 'norm" that has changed with the VIRUS. Those days have forever gone. 143 pp. "Denis has captured the essence of brevity and wit that is the mainstay of traditional Irish storytelling. Reading his accounts transports the reader back to a simpler time when an entertaining evening involved tall stories, singing and dancing. I read the book in one sitting, it is that captivating." (Jim Kane, Grandson of Maurice Carney of the Great Blasket Island and of Bridget (Daly) of Coumeenole.) Rear panel.
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- Title
- SHORT TALES FROM HIGH STOOLS: A COLLECTION OF PINT-SIZE STORIES FROM WEST KERRY
- Author
- Ryan, Denis
- Publisher
- Utter Press (Dingle Bookshop)
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0955725550
- ISBN 13
- 9780955725555
- Illustrator
- Domhnal Ó Bric
- Seller catalogs
- Irish and Ireland
Go in for a pint in any of the many pubs and within minutes someone will be telling you a story. You may have to pay the price of a pint but you will get your money's worth.
Some say that the moment a person sits on one of the tall stools that line the bar in Kruger's pub in Dún Chaoin, they are somehow gifted with the ability to speak with authority on one chosen topic. You will often hear these seats referred to as seats of Knowledge.
Kruger's is a small pub perched on what we like to call the edge of Europe and boasts that it serves the most westerly pint in Ireland. It also boasts a selection of locals wander with ease between the Irish language and English, depending on the company.
A man ones told me that if you sit at the top of Mount Brandon you can see the whole of Kerry, but if you sit on a high stool in Krugers you will see the whole world.
This is a small collection of pint sized stories from those high stools. I can't vouch for their accuracy, but I guarantee that each one has a grain of truth in it, often artfully concealed inside.
Names have been changed and personalities shuffled to keep you guessing, but on a stormy night you could meet anyone of them in Kruger's of the Dún Chaoin.
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