The tailor and Ansty / with an introduction by Frank O'Connor and a postscript giving the tailor's views on the banning of this book

Cross, Eric

ISBN 10: 0853420505 / ISBN 13: 9780853420507

Published by Cork: Mercier Press, 1975

About this Item

Cross, Eric. The tailor and Ansty / with an introduction by Frank O'Connor and a postscript giving the tailor's views on the banning of this book. Cork: Mercier Press, 1975 second reprint of the 1970 edition. Paperback, Fair reading copy. Illustrated card covers, grubby, with shelfwear and creases to edges, small stains and light damage to base of the spine. Binding strong. 168pp. Pages tanned, contents clean. The Tailor and Ansty is a memoir by Eric Cross about the life of the Irish tailor and storyteller, Timothy Buckley (1860 1945), and his wife Anastasia ("Ansty" ) Buckley (née McCarthy, (1872 1947)) who lived in Garrynapeaka near Gougane Barra in County Cork.The memoir was first serialised in Seán Ó Faoláin's periodical, The Bell, then published in book form in 1942. It was banned by the Censorship of Publications Board because of its depiction of premarital cohabitation, and its sexual frankness. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The tailor and Ansty / with an introduction by Frank O'Connor and a postscript giving the tailor's views on the banning of this book
• Publisher: Cork: Mercier Press
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0853420505
• ISBN 13: 9780853420507
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Fair
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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.