A solid gold treat from top to tail. A tremendous set of stories by the great Irish playwright John Self The Observer A fake A quack A charlatan Get a grip on yourself woman Well say another rosary and then Ill leave you home.Stories of Ireland is a brilliant colourful compendium of midcentury Irish experience from one of Irelands greatest ever writers Brian Friel. Demonstrating all of Friels peerless instinct for voice scene and the uncanny mystery found in the everyday these tales tell of beauty struggle and discovery from the drowning of a man in the bogblack waters of Lough Keeragh to the camaraderie of teenage potato gathers in County Tyrone and from the careful work of the German War Graves Commission in Glenn na fuiseog to trawlermens talk of sunken gold off the coast of Donegal.Selected by Friel himself and introduced by acclaimed author Louise Kennedy this charming heartful collection truly offers some of the best stories ever written.Some of the best stories ever written.