Letters of an Irish Priest

John B. Keane

Dufour Editions

Take a journey through the back roads of the Irish countryside as you read these stories by John Keane, who writes of centuries-old traditional Irish folklore and evokes everyday life-romance, mischief, holiday, seasonal despair, human foibles, triumphs, random acts of kindness. His stories are peopled with denizens of County Kerry, whose whimsical names only hint of their eccentricity. 415 pages. 8.5 x 5.6 inches. MJF Books, New York, 2002.

An Irish Christmas Feast.

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The story of Big Maggie Polpin and her attempts to keep her family together after the death of her husband is an enduring theatre favourite. The dialogue crackles with hilarious, caustic putdowns as the indomitable Maggie deals with her feckless family and unwanted suitors. Everyone wants a part of Big Maggie and her property, but she has other ideas.

Big Maggie: Schools edition with notes by Eilis Flanagan

Literature & Fiction

Eilis Flanagan

Dramas & Plays

The Mercier Press Ltd

Tull MacAdoo TD is kept busy procuring jobs and IRA pensions for deserving voters and keeping his spendthrift son under control. Somehow he must also contest an election and save his reputation while holding fast to his personal philosophy: "Forage between honesty and crookedness and do the best you can". 
Martin O'Mora, the Parish Priest of Lochnanane dispenses justice in his own inimitable way. While battling for the souls of his parishioners, he must also deal with his nephew's shaky vocation, a sex-crazed curate and an uncontrollable outbreak of inflatable dolls. 
The clients of Dicky Mick Dicky O'Connor require spouses that are willing, wealthy and in perfect working order - difficult to find in the underpopulated hinterlands of Ballybarra, but anything is possible for a gifted matchmaker.

Celebrated Letters of John B. Keane

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Mercier Press

The best and most humorous lines in all John B. Keane's writings, selected by himself and presented in convenient small format. The book includes the classics: 'A play about sex in Ireland is always ahead of its time.' 'The secret of sex is not to take it seriously.' 'Marriage is a long, difficult confrontation with short outbreaks of peace.'

The Little Book of John B. Keane

With enough good cheer to warm the heart throughout the Christmas season and the long nights of winter, Keane's playful volume revisits the Christmases eccentrically celebrated by the likes of Dotie Tupper and Johnny Naile, the doughty Canon Doyle and deaf Canon Cornelius Coodle, the amiable spendthrift Aenias Mackson and Hiccups O'Reilly, who disappears one Christmas for seven years. Keane bears delightful witness to the strengths and failings, the trials and triumphs, of the simple but not so ordinary folk of rural Ireland.

An Irish Christmas Feast: The Best of John B. Keane's Christmas Stories

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