| Tales of the West of Ireland Revised Edition Contributor(s): Berry, James (Author), Horgan, G. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0851055028 ISBN-13: 9780851055022 Publisher: Colin Smythe OUR PRICE: $10.78 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1988 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 67015940 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 8.4" (0.45 lbs) 218 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Ireland - Ethnic Orientation - Irish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |