For a relatively small country, Ireland’s contributions to the world of literature have been enormous. From the older tradition, Irish writers have inherited a sense of wonder in the face of nature, a narrative style that tends toward the deliberately exaggerated or absurd, a keen sense of the power of satire. These themes carry through the entire canon of Irish literature, up until modern times.

Stephen Brennan brings us this collection of classic stories, essays, and fairytales that inform the past and therefore, the present. This collection of thirty-six stories includes the influential works of Ireland’s most treasured authors, including Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Maria Edgeworth, Edith Somerville, and many more. Here are Ireland's finest writers, together in an entertaining, enchanting, and humorous anthology.

Hardcover, 300 pages, 2016.