'A solid gold treat from top to tail. A tremendous set of stories by the great Irish
playwright' John Self The Observer 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.
Selected by Friel himself and introduced by acclaimed author Louise Kennedy this charming
heartful collection truly offers some of the best stories ever written. '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
