Here is a collection of his short fiction, with dozens of tales spanning his career and ranging from the moving to the macabre, the humorous to the haunting. From the penetrating 'Memories of Youghal' to the bittersweet 'Bodily Secrets' and the elegiac 'Two More Gallants', here are masterpieces of insight, depth, drama and humanity, acutely rendered by a modern master.'A textbook for anyone who ever wanted to write a story, and a treasure for anyone who loves to read them' Madison Smartt Bell'Extraordinary... Mr. Trevor's sheer intensity of entry into the lives of his people...proceeds to uncover new layers of yearning and pain, new angles of vision and credible thought' The New York Times Book Review

    On struggling farms, in Dublin's rain-drenched streets, or in parched exile in Franco's Spain, McGahern's characters wage a confused but touching war against the facts of life.

    Ní Dhomhnaill’s skillful negotiations between the forms, fables, and idioms of an older Ireland and the commodity culture, depth-psychology, and Eurospeak of modern Ireland are disclosed by the playful, accurate language of Muldoon who has been called the “most charismatic poet” of the British Isles.

    She cannot kill them, but she can get rid of them. Casting a spell, she unleashes a terrible enchantment - they are to be swans for 900 years, living in the most inhospitable lakes in Ireland.

    Deciding that the local rates are not high enough, Mark Doran leads a daring cattle drive of 200 cattle and thirteen men to the great Trallock Fair, challenging the local business men and their power. They encounter many perils and must rely on all their wits and resources. But Doran's herd and men endure to achieve record prices and the experience of their lives. This fantastic tale is crammed with colorful characters such as Haybags Mullaney, Bessie LieDown, and the impulsive Carabim girls, owners of the Durango Bar. Its warmth and hilarity, countered by moments of lyrical poignancy, will delight the reader. The great cattle drive is as important to this community as World War II is globally. The closeness to nature of the men and their cattle is vividly realized. Durango is an adventure story set in a rural Ireland that is fast dying, but John B. Keane brings it to life with great skill, humor, and compassion.

    But his war against the French intelligentsia did not end there, and Burke continued to take pen in hand against the Jacobins until his death in 1797.This collection brings together for the first time in unabridged form Burke’s writings on the French Revolution that anticipate, refine, and summarize the works in his famous Reflections on the Revolution in France. There are seven items in the collection. Included are “Letter to a Member of the National Assembly,” “Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs,” and “A Letter to a Noble Lord.” A foreword and headnotes to each selection point the reader to some of the key issues.Daniel E. Ritchie is Professor of English Literature at Bethel College.Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.

    A Kerryman, he is also one of its most famous teachers. The world has beaten a path to Listowel to look at, and listen to, The Master. This book is an eloquent and colourful chronicle of a rich and happy life: it is the story of a man who loves literature and his fellow man and who has ever been a fighter for both. From the day when he took up a teaching post in his native Listowel he has shown himself as a dedicated and enlightened teacher, a short-story writer of international stature, and a public speaker of the rarest verve and vitality. He is also a man in love with language, not only English which he uses so magically, but also with Irish and indeed Shelta, the secret language of the travelling people, a knowledge which he uses to such effect in his play and novel The Honey Spike. In a telling phrase, Bryan MacMahon quotes the saying that "a teacher leaves the track of his teeth on a parish for three generations." There is no doubt that his work has been for the good not merely of his native area, but also of his pupils, his fellow teachers and readers everywhere. He is a rare national asset: this wise, witty and frank book will provide him with "a monument more lasting than bronze."