In the ould ago: illustrated Irish folklore

With its seamless blend of fact and elastic pishoguery, Irish rural folklore is a slippery business, and nowhere more so than in Ulster, as exemplified by this humorous and heartfelt coffee-table picture book of Fermanagh folk memory. Long ago, McKeagney, a shopkeeper and undertaker from Tempo village near Enniskillen, had the brainwave of turning local ... Read more

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