Stories of Ireland

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brian Friel (1929 – 2015) is one of Ireland’s greatest ever playwrights. Over a career of more than fifty years, he published 24 plays including Faith Healer , Translations and Dancing at Lughnasa , all of which are now defining documents of Irish literature. Globally, he is one of the most beloved and frequently performed dramatists of the 20th century. Friel was also an acclaimed short story writer, publishing two renowned collections in his lifetime. He died in 2015 at home in Donegal.