What began simply in Ireland as entertainment and communication through the spoken word soon grew into an extraordinary literary form unmatched in any other country. The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories triumphantly demonstrates the development of the s
THE CLASSIC ONE-VOLUME INTRODUCTION TO IRELAND'S RICH FOLKLORE: WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS'S MAGICAL SELECTION OF TRADITIONAL IRISH FAIRY AND FOLK TALES Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland combines two books of Irish folklore collected and edited by William Butler
Si alguna ciudad ilustra de manera privilegiada la enormidad del continente americano es Nueva York. Behan es uno más de los visitantes de la ciudad —muchos de ellos convertidos en permanentes— que no ha podido mantenerse indiferente a ella, aunque l
This volume contains everything Behan wrote in dramatic form in English. First comes the three famous full-length plays: The Quare Fellow, set in an Irish prison, is "something very like a masterpiece" (John Russell Taylor); The Hostage, set in a Dublin l
The immigration man read my deportation order, looked at it and handed it back to me. 'Are you Irish?' he asked me.'No' I said 'as a matter of fact, I'm Yemenite Arab.'Two detectives came forward who were evidently there to meet me. 'Apparently he is Bren