"The first meaning of 'the state of Ireland' is that it's a place where stories are still told, deliciously and by masters of the art, of whom Benedict Kiely is

Do the Irish have, in relation to anybody else, any special capacity for the short story?'. Collecting short stories that cover many generations and moods of Ir

1973. Mervyn Kavanagh travels home to the small Irish town of Carmincross for the wedding of his favourite niece. As he nears the town, Mervyn is haunted by dar