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Product Description: A holiday treat from one of Ireland’s most celebrated storytellers.This bountiful collection of more than fifty tales by one of Ireland’s liveliest and most popular writers offers holiday charm and Gaelic humor by the Christmas stockingful...read more

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9781616084301 | Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, October 10, 2011, cover price $24.95
9780786710546 | Running Pr Book Pub, October 15, 2002, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A collection of over fifty stories that captures the excitement, romance, and playful mischief associated with Christmastime in County Kerry, Ireland.

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9781634505062 | Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, November 3, 2015, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A holiday treat from one of Ireland’s most celebrated storytellers.

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9781856356510 | 2 edition (Mercier Pr Ltd, August 15, 2009), cover price $15.95

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At a time when priests patrolled the narrow country lanes at night, searching with sticks and even with dogs, for courting couples, Dan Paddy Andy came in for ringing denunciations from the Church. A constant source of anecdotes, he lived by his wits and by his skill in repartee. It was in his later years that his fame spread far and wide.

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9781856354219 | Mercier Pr Ltd, December 15, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: At a time when priests patrolled the narrow country lanes at night, searching with sticks and even with dogs, for courting couples, Dan Paddy Andy came in for ringing denunciations from the Church.

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Product Description: A new collection of previously unpublished essays by Ireland's best-loved writer, John B. Keane.

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9781856354387 | Mercier Pr Ltd, December 15, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A new collection of previously unpublished essays by Ireland's best-loved writer, John B.

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Product Description: With enough good cheer to warm the heart throughout the Christmas season and the long nights of winter, Keane's playful volume revisits the Christmases eccentrically celebrated by the likes of Dotie Tupper and Johnny Naile, the doughty Canon Doyle and deaf Canon Cornelius Coodle, the amiable spendthrift Aenias Mackson and Hiccups O'Reilly, who disappears one Christmas for seven years...read more

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9781856354509 | Gardners Books, October 1, 2004, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: With enough good cheer to warm the heart throughout the Christmas season and the long nights of winter, Keane's playful volume revisits the Christmases eccentrically celebrated by the likes of Dotie Tupper and Johnny Naile, the doughty Canon Doyle and deaf Canon Cornelius Coodle, the amiable spendthrift Aenias Mackson and Hiccups O'Reilly, who disappears one Christmas for seven years.

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Filled with short stories that resonate with folklore, this collection of warm-hearted tales--including 'Fred Rimble,' 'The Hanging,' and 'Guaranteed Pure'--from one of Ireland's most beloved writers exposes human frailties with great compassion and pathos. Original.

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9780786712984 | Running Pr Book Pub, February 9, 2004, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Filled with short stories that resonate with folklore, this collection of warm-hearted tales--including 'Fred Rimble,' 'The Hanging,' and 'Guaranteed Pure'--from one of Ireland's most beloved writers exposes human frailties with great compassion and pathos.

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One of Ireland's most beloved writers offers seventeen new holiday stories drawn from the rich traditions and folklore of his country, including 'The Greatest Wake of All,' 'The Seven Year Trance,' 'The Hermit of Scartnabrock,' and 'Awlingal Princess.' Reprint.

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9780786710553 | Reprint edition (Running Pr Book Pub, October 15, 2002), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: One of Ireland's most beloved writers offers seventeen new holiday stories drawn from the rich traditions and folklore of his country, including 'The Greatest Wake of All,' 'The Seven Year Trance,' 'The Hermit of Scartnabrock,' and 'Awlingal Princess.

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Product Description: In The Year of the Hiker an absentee father sends shock waves through his family when he returns home after twenty years. In The Change in Mame Fadden, a woman is torn between repairing her marriage and leading a life of freedom on the streets...read more

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9781856353656, titled "Three Plays: The Year of the Hiker/ The Change in Mame Fadden/ The Highest House on the Mountain" | Mercier Pr Ltd, December 15, 2001, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: In The Year of the Hiker an absentee father sends shock waves through his family when he returns home after twenty years.

This collection features such famous volumes as 'Letters of a Civil Guard', 'Letters of an Irish Publican' and 'Letters of a Country Postman.' In them we find many evocations of rural Ireland, with interesting characters, gossip and malice.

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9781856352970 | Mercier Pr Ltd, December 15, 2001, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This collection features such famous volumes as 'Letters of a Civil Guard', 'Letters of an Irish Publican' and 'Letters of a Country Postman.

One of Ireland's most beloved writers offers seventeen new holiday stories drawn from the rich traditions and folklore of his country, including 'The Greatest Wake of All,' 'The Seven Year Trance,' 'The Hermit of Scartnabrock,' and 'Awlingal Princess.' Reprint.

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9780786708154 | Running Pr Book Pub, October 12, 2000, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Offers seventeen holiday stories drawn from the traditions and folklore of Ireland, including 'The Greatest Wake of All,' 'The Seven Year Trance,' 'The Hermit of Scartnabrock,' and 'Awlingal Princess of Cunnackeenamadra.

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9780786709373 | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, November 1, 2001), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: One of Ireland's most beloved writers offers seventeen new holiday stories drawn from the rich traditions and folklore of his country, including 'The Greatest Wake of All,' 'The Seven Year Trance,' 'The Hermit of Scartnabrock,' and 'Awlingal Princess.

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Product Description: In this volume are hundreds of short pieces which represent the distillation of the experience of a funny, witty, wise and passionate observer of the bright tapestry of Irish life. All human life is here, and Keane tells its story in an astonishing procession of remarkable characters and in rare humorous glimpses of his own career...read more

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9781856352659 | Mercier Pr Ltd, August 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In this volume are hundreds of short pieces which represent the distillation of the experience of a funny, witty, wise and passionate observer of the bright tapestry of Irish life.

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Product Description: Tull MacAdoo TD is kept busy procuring jobs and IRA pensions for deserving voters and keeping his spendthrift son under control. Somehow he must also contest an election and save his reputation while holding fast to his personal philosophy: "Forage between honesty and crookedness and do the best you can"...read more

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9780853429845 | Irish Amer Book Co, May 1, 1992, cover price $27.00

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9781856351560 | Mercier Pr Ltd, December 15, 1997, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Tull MacAdoo TD is kept busy procuring jobs and IRA pensions for deserving voters and keeping his spendthrift son under control.

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9781856353212 | Mercier Pr Ltd, December 15, 2000, cover price $11.95

Hardcover:

9781570980701 | Roberts Rinehart Pub, October 1, 1998, cover price $24.95

Paperback:

9781570982422 | Roberts Rinehart Pub, October 1, 1998, cover price $14.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781570982392 | Roberts Rinehart Pub, October 1, 1998, cover price $11.95

Paperback:

9781898175032 | Irish Amer Book Co, October 1, 1998, cover price $9.95

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9781898175018 | Irish Amer Book Co, October 1, 1998, cover price $9.95

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9781856352093 | Irish Amer Book Co, October 1, 1998, cover price $10.95

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Irish Stories (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9781570981661 | Reprint edition (Roberts Rinehart Pub, October 1, 1997), cover price $24.95

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9781570981838 | Roberts Rinehart Pub, October 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Irish Stories

Presents fifteen non-traditional Irish Christmas stories, including 'Something Drastic,' 'The Best Christmas Dinner,' and 'The Urging of Christmas'
By John B. Keane (narrator)

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9781570980695 | Roberts Rinehart Pub, October 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Presents fifteen non-traditional Irish Christmas stories, including 'Something Drastic,' 'The Best Christmas Dinner,' and 'The Urging of Christmas'

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9781570981081 | Roberts Rinehart Pub, October 1, 1996, cover price $11.95

Ireland's premier novelist, the author of The Bodhran Makers, presents a story of greed and love set in a close-knit Irish community and featuring a man whose study for the priesthood is interrupted by a seduction. Tour. IP.

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9781570980688 | Roberts Rinehart Pub, August 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Ireland's premier novelist, the author of The Bodhran Makers, presents a story of greed and love set in a close-knit Irish community and featuring a man whose study for the priesthood is interrupted by a seduction.

Presents fifteen non-traditional Irish Christmas stories, including 'Twelve Days' Grace' and 'The Great Christmas Raid at Ballybooly'

Hardcover:

9781879373976 | Roberts Rinehart Pub, December 1, 1994, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Presents fifteen non-traditional Irish Christmas stories, including 'Twelve Days' Grace' and 'The Great Christmas Raid at Ballybooly'

Paperback:

9781570980503 | Roberts Rinehart Pub, November 1, 1995, cover price $10.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781570980510 | Roberts Rinehart Pub, November 1, 1995, cover price $9.95

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Filled with colorful and unforgettable characters, an adventure novel by the author of The Bodhran Makers follows an eventful, sometimes hilarious cattle drive across rural Ireland during World War II. Tour. IP.

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9781570980381 | Reissue edition (Natl Book Network, August 1, 1995), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In search of higher prices for his herd, Mark Doran leads thirteen men and two hundred cattle on a drive across rural Ireland during World War II

Paperback:

9781856350013 | Mercier Pr Ltd, November 15, 1992, cover price $21.95

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