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Essays from one of the most popular literary critics and writers in Ireland for over fifty years.



In these selected essays, published to mark his eightieth birthday, Benedict Kiely writes principally about the writers of his native Ireland. Written across half a century - a number of them were first published in periodicals in the min-1940's - they affirm the breadth of his reading and interests; novelists of the nineteenth century, like Gerald Griffin, William Carleton, Canon Sheehan and George Moore; prose writers of the twentieth century, such as Kate O'Brien, Sean...

'Do the Irish have, in relation to anybody else, any special capacity for the short story?' In this collection of 38 short stories covering many generations and moods of Irish writing, this question is emphatically answered in the affirmative.