An Irish Christmas Feast: The Best of John B Keane

A Holiday Treat from One of Ireland's Most Celebrated StorytellersThis bountiful, first-time-ever collection of more than fifty tales by one of Ireland's liveliest and most popular story writers offers holiday charm, quirky characters, and Gaelic humor by the Christmas stocking-ful. Drawing on the rich folk culture of County Kerry, John B Keane brings new life to old customs in his portrayals of the special holiday dreams and everyday shortcomings of not-so-ordinary country people during the Christmas season. With enough good cheer to warm the heart throughout the holiday season and all the long nights of winter, Keane's congenial volume revisits the Christmases celebrated by characters like Dotie Tupper and Johnny Naile, the deaf Canon Cornelius Coodle, the amiable spendthrift Aenias Mackson, and Hiccups O'Reilly, who disappears one Christmas Eve and is gone for seven years. Whether recounting "The Miracle of Ballybradawn," "The Great Christmas Raid of Ballybooley," or "The Order of M