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Stories of Ireland

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A collection of delightful short stories from one of Ireland's greatest ever writers, Brian Friel

A fake! A quack! A charlatan! Get a grip on yourself, woman! We'll say another rosary and then I'll leave you home.'

Stories of Ireland is a brilliant, colourful compendium of mid-century Irish experience from one of Ireland's greatest ever writers, Brian Friel. Demonstrating all of Friel's peerless instinct for voice, scene, and the uncanny mystery found in the everyday, these tales tell of beauty, struggle and discovery: from the drowning of a man in the bog-black waters of Lough Keeragh, to the camaraderie of teenage potato gathers in County Tyrone, and from the careful work of the German War Graves Commission in Glenn na fuiseog, to trawlermen's talk of sunken gold off the coast of Donegal.

'Some of the best stories ever written. They are everything short stories should be - deft, skilfully written, funny and quite often breathlessly sad' Edna O'Brien

About This Edition

ISBN: 9781405972239
Publication date: 20th March 2025
Author: Brian Friel
Publisher: Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 176 pages
Series: Penguin European Writers
Genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Narrative theme: Identity / belonging
Narrative theme: Sense of place
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