This collection includes folk tales, fairy tales, and more modern stories of adventure, excitement and growing up. It contains work from our best-loved writers - Jonathan Swift, Frank O'Connor, Sen O'Faolin, Brian Friel, Mary Lavin - as well as discoveries from little-known authors, and specially commissioned translations from Irish language classics. Edited by Eils Dillon, Pat Donlon, Peter Fallon and Pat Egan.

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

There are 204 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 1993 by O'Brien Press Ltd .

Eilis Dillon was born in Galway in 1920. Abandoning a career as a professional cellist, she turned to writing for adults and children, quickly earning an international reputation for both. Eilis lived in Italy for six years in the 1960s, then divided her time between Ireland and California, until her final years which were spent in Ireland. She died in Dublin in 1994.