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Colin Smythe Ltd, 1988 Book. New. Soft cover. During a period spent in the west of Ireland in 1964-65, Gertrude Horgan discovered the tales which James Berry had contributed to a local paper, The Mayo News, during the last years of his life, and decided to edit the present collection, first published by the Dolmen Press in 1966. In doing this she added an important body of work to 19th century Irish literature and rescued the author from oblivion. Like William Carleton, James Berry, a native of County Mayo, came from peasant stock. He spent his whole life in the West until his death at the age of seventy-two in 1914. The material of his tales comes from the people of Mayo and Galway, and introduces the smugglers, the packmen and the raparees of the West. Mainly handed down to him by word of mouth, they tell of poor communities living in a bleak and beautiful countryside against a background of secret societies, man-hunts, smuggling, murders, wakes, rebellion and starvation. Some go back hundreds of…
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Tales of the West of Ireland Paperback - 1989
by James Berry; G. Horgan (Editor)
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- Title Tales of the West of Ireland
- Author James Berry; G. Horgan (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New ed of 3 Revi
- Pages 218
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Colin Smythe, Dublin
- Date May 1989
- ISBN 9780851055022 / 0851055028
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.6 in (21.34 x 13.46 x 1.52 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Ireland
- Ethnic Orientation: Irish
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 67015940
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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