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Tales of the West of Ireland

Tales of the West of Ireland


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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 years, evoking the legendary past of Connemara, while others are Berry's own tales of the Ireland of his youth when the shadow of the Famine hovered over the West.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780851055022
  • Publisher: Dolmen Press
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 213 mm
  • No of Pages: 218
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 0 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0851055028
  • Publisher Date: 12 Dec 1988
  • Edition: New ed of 3 Revised ed
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 135 mm

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