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collection makes available again the cream of Bryan MacMahon's stories from his two earlier volumes along with hitherto unpublished stories and others not previously collected in book form.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

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

LAVIN, Mary

Apple on the treetop

Power, Richard

Lady with the Red Shoes

ITA DALY

Captain with the Whiskers

KIELY, BENEDICTt

Desire And Other Stories

James, Stephens

A single sensation

Cooke, Emma

All the king's horses, and other stories

West, Anthony C.

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