A Book of Ireland

🔖 Frank O'Connor was a well-known short-story writer, critic and playwright with a profound knowledge of his country's language, literature and tradition. Ranging from the Venerable Bede in the eighth century to the near-contemporary school of major writers that included Yeats, Synge and Joyce, and beyond it to Padraic Colum in our own day, he drew upon sources both obvious and recondite. The result is a miscellany that stimulates while it satisfies, a compilation that bears the hallmark of the gifted anthologist.