Stories of Ireland
  • Published: 27 March 2025
  • ISBN: 9781405972246
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192

Stories of Ireland

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17 Jun 2025
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27 Mar 2025
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A collection of delightful short stories from one of Ireland's greatest ever writers, Brian Friel

'A fake! A quack! A charlatan! Get a grip on yourself, woman! We’ll say another rosary and then I’ll leave you home.’

Stories of Ireland is a brilliant, colourful compendium of mid-century Irish experience from one of Ireland’s greatest ever writers, Brian Friel. Demonstrating all of Friel’s peerless instinct for voice, scene, and the uncanny mystery found in the everyday, these tales tell of beauty, struggle and discovery: from the drowning of a man in the bog-black waters of Lough Keeragh, to the camaraderie of teenage potato gathers in County Tyrone, and from the careful work of the German War Graves Commission in Glenn na fuiseog, to trawlermen’s talk of sunken gold off the coast of Donegal.

Selected by Friel himself, and introduced by acclaimed author Louise Kennedy, this delightful, heartful collection truly offers some of the best stories ever written.
  • Published: 27 March 2025
  • ISBN: 9781405972246
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192
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Praise for Stories of Ireland

A solid gold treat from top to tail. A tremendous set of stories by the great Irish playwright

John Self, The Observer

As natural and as beautiful as you can imagine... full of vitality, full of life

Kevin Barry, author of Night Boat to Tangier

Like Chekhov, Friel proved himself a rare master of both drama and short fiction.

The Spectator

Some of the best stories ever written. They are everything short stories should be – deft, skilfully written, funny and quite often breathlessly sad

Edna O’Brien

There is a touch of spring about this collection and I find myself curiously helpless in front of them. The funny stories are a complete joy. The serious stories are concerned with the subtlest nuances of human emotions and relations which can neither be described nor directly expressed

The Irish Times