This pastoral drama narrates with deceptive simplicity the arguments of two old men over the proper site for the weaver's burial. As their absurd, comic controversy rages, new love and life begin for his youthful widow. This book contains Seumas O'Kelly's acknowledged masterpiece and a selection of his finest stories. It reveals an extraordinary talent.

    He was thirty-two years of age and he had used the sea since twelve - twenty years. His past was a long succession of fo'c'sles, bar-rooms, blazing suns, storms and sea happen ings so run together that all sequence was lost. Beyond them lay a dismal blotch, his childhood. He had entered the world and literally and figuratively had been laid at the door of a work house; of his childhood he remembered little, of his parentage he knew nothing. In drink he was quiet, but most dangerous under certain provocations.It was as though deep in his being lay a blazing hatred born of injustice through ages and only coming to light when upborne by balloon-juice.

    Jimeen can't seem to stay out of trouble - he just can't resist it, whether it's tormenting his sister, C�it, a night out 'on the Wren', trying to steal lobsters, or scouring the countryside for spies.A drowned cat, a drunken goose, the whole neighbourhood out searching all night - these are the results of Jimeen's pranks.Popular for years in the Irish language, this translation means that a whole new audience can join in the fun.