Born in Listowel, Co. Kerry, in 1909, Bryan MacMahon was for most of his adult life schoolmaster of the local Boys National School until his retirement in 1975. He has written a number of novels and plays as well as two celebrated volumes of short stories - long out of print -îThe Lion Tamer and The Red Petticoat. The "New York Times" called Bryan MacMahon "the purest, the richest of Irish voices . . .' and praised his stories as being 'superior not only because of the richness of imagination he brings to them and because he creates a language and a world all his own, but because he is able to convey through moments in the lives of simple Irish people values that are universal, that transcend geography and time, and concern men and women where they live." This collection makes available again the cream of Bryan MacMahon's stories from his two earlier volumes along with hitherto unpublished stories and others not previously collected in book form.

The end of the world and other stories

MacMahon, Bryan

Literature & Fiction

Poolbeg Press

<p>A Journey to the Seven Streams and Other Stories by Benedict Kiely. 1977 mass market paperback published by Poolbeg Press, Dublin.</p>

A Journey to the Seven Streams and Other Stories

Benedict Kiely

Short Stories & Anthologies

Inscription on inside cover. Nice tight, sound copy.

A gift horse, and other stories

Kate Cruise O'Brien

Long renowned as one of Ireland's greatest poets, John Montague, Ireland Professor of Poetry, displays his second gift, as a writer of fine short stories, in this superb collection.These nine stories extend from Northern Ireland to Dublin, and even, in the daring title story, to Mexico. They focus on such compelling and diverse themes as the conspiracy of sadism between schoolmaster and schoolchildren; the fantasy world of a lonely farm boy; political scheming in a city office; the struggles of a gifted artist in bohemian Dublin. "The Cry," an astonishingly prescient story, is one of the first to describe the beginnings of the Troubles, and "An Occasion of Sin," written in the voice of a young French woman confronting Irish attitudes towards sex, is a small masterpiece. But it is the title story which dazzles most of all. Anticipating magic realism, this tour de force describes the astonishing Bernard Corunna Coote and his Mexican campaign to establish that the Irish founded America!John Montague's Death of a Chieftain and Other Stories is undoubtedly one of the most important collections of short stories to emerge from an Irish writer in the twentieth century.

Death of a Chieftain

MONTAGUE, John.

Tales from Bective Bridge is a collection of 10 short stories concerning rural Ireland and its populace by the writer, Mary Lavin, born an American, who returned along with her family to Ireland in 1925.The collection was first published in 1942, with the assistance of Lord Dunsany, who also wrote the introduction to the collection when first published. The collection established her as a writer of note, and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1943.The bridge of the title, Bective Bridge, lies not far from what was her home, Abbey Farm, near Bective Abbey, between Bective and Robinstown in Meath.

Tales from Bective Bridge

Mary Lavin

The Distant Past

TREVOR,William

Apple on the treetop

Power, Richard

One for sorrow and other stories

Glavin, Anthony

Lady with the Red Shoes

ITA DALY

Captain with the Whiskers

KIELY, BENEDICTt

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