Benedict Kiely

Story about narrator's boyhood in the northeast corner of Ulster, in Ireland. His Roman Catholic family shared a house with Willy & Jinny Norris, a …

Writer reminisces about his Cousin Ellen, who wrote poetry for the local papers and was the greatest non-stop talker you ever listened to. The poetry was …

When the writer's mother went to school in the county town of Clonnelly, Ireland, she lodged in Jail Square in the house of a widow who had 2 daughters…

In Dublin the writer met a professor who had come from America to search out his origins. He was on the way to Kerry, where his grandfather had come from &…

The writer tells about Lanty, a childhood friend. The two boys grew up in the same Irish town. Lanty was a wild boy, who had a great many accidents, but …