Ireland's Master Storyteller

The Collected Stories of Éamon Kelly

Eamon Kelly, Eoin Kelly

• Publisher: Mercier Press
• Year: 1998
• Print ISBN: 9781781178416
• eBook ISBN: 9781781178423
• Edition: 12
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Storytelling

In this collection, actor and seanchaí (traditional storyteller) Éamon Kelly's finest stories are collected for the first time: stories of the real Kerry and the magical past of the Gobán Saor, the heartbreak of emigration, the stations, the priests, the courting and dancing, the war between the sexes. Kelly mines a rich seam of humour and sadness out of resilience of a people rich in hospitality and generosity, imagination, culture and tradition.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Beyond the Horizon
• Going to America
• Going to the Train
• Pegg the Damsel
• Shrovetime
• Mick the Fiddler Comes Home
• Killing the Pig
• After Hours
• Tobacco
• Love and Marriage
• The Hereafter
• The First Church
• Father MacGillacuddy
• Eoghan Rua and the Priest
• The Priest and the People
• Connor the Carman
• The Parish Clerk
• The Mission
• Civil and Strange
• A Quiet Drink
• The Poor Souls
• The Severe Penance
• Eoghan’s School
• The Golden Ball
• The Station House
• Con and Bridgie
• The Holy Well
• Doing the Rounds
• Nell Casey
• The Effigy
• Abbey’s Bowl
• A Ruminating Animal
• The Mermaid
• Minding the House
• The Season of Light
• The Barefooted Gander
• The Dear Departed
• Washing the Cock’s Feet
• The Cock and the Coop
• The Blacksmith’s Wife
• It Snowed That Night
• May Morning
• Daniel O’Connell and the Colonel from Battersea
• The Biddy Boys
• Mary O’Shea’s Story
• The Archdeacon, His Clerk and His Curate
• The King of the Lies
• The Jennet
• Spiorad an Tobac
• Clever Dogs
• The Woman That Went to Hell
• Tóg Bog É!
• The Golauns
• Dean Swift and His Serving Man
• I am a Young Fellow
• Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin Finds an English-speaking Son-in-law for a Wealthy Farmer
• The Man That Never Slept
• The Hiring Fairs
• The Young Woman’s Denial
• Two Fierce Lies
• Small Michael and the Major
• The Bicycle
• The Singapore Policeman
• Padden
• The Cat and the Splinter
• The Tay-Man
• The Connachtman’s Story
• Filling the Firkins
• The Apprenticed Doctor
• Glossary of Irish (and Hiberno-English) Words and Phrases
• Glossary of Irish Sentences
• About the Author
• About the Publisher