The Finest Stories of Padraic O Conaire

This collection, the first representative translation of his work, contains 15 of his greatest short stories including M'Asal Beag Dubh, beloved of generations of schoolchildren.Padraic 6 Conaire was born in Galway in 1882, brought up in the Connemara Gaeltacht and educated there and at Rockwell and Blackrock Colleges. After some years at sea he joined the British Civil Service and was stationed in London (where he taught in the Gaelic League during his spare time) until 1914, when he resigned and returned to Ireland to devote the rest of his life to writing.One of the few 20th century writers in Irish to catch the popular imagination, he died in 1928 in the Richmond Hospital, Dublin, leaving as his sole material possessions his pipe, some tobacco, and an apple.