The Tailor and Ansty

Cross, Eric, with an Introduction By Frank O'Connor

ISBN 10: 0853420505 / ISBN 13: 9780853420507

Published by Mercier, Cork, 1992

About this Item

generally fine copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 28573

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Tailor and Ansty
• Publisher: Mercier, Cork
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0853420505
• ISBN 13: 9780853420507
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Reprint.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Irish

About this title

Synopsis

The Tailor and Ansty was banned soon after its first publication in 1942 and became the subject of much bitter controversy. It has become a modern Irish classic, promising to make immortal the Tailor and his irrepressible wife, Ansty. The Tailor never traveled further than Scotland, yet the breadth of the world could not contain the wealth of his humor and fantasy. All human life is here – marriages, inquests, matchmaking, wakes – and always the Tailor, his wife, and their black cow.

About the Author

Eric Cross was born in Newry, County Down in 1905 and was educated as a chemical engineer.

He is best known as the recorder of the life of the Tailor and his wife Ansty, who first made their appearance in print in The Bell in February 1941.

Silence is Golden, a selection of stories and essays by Eric Cross appeared in 1978, he died in 1980.