Tales of the West of Ireland

James Berry

Edited by Gertrude M. Horgan

Publ. by The Dolmen Press, hardcover with dustjacket.
dustjacket has some damage.

Like William Carleton, James Berry, a native of County Mayo, came from peasant stock. He spent his whole life in the West, until his death at the age of seventy two in 1914. The material of his tales comes from the people of Mayo and Galway and intro­duces the smugglers, the packmen and the raparees of the West. He evokes the legendary past of Connemara, while the shadow of the Famine hovers over the West of his tales. This book collects for the first time part of Ireland's literary heritage.