The Short Stories Of John B Keane

Author : John B. Keane
Publisher : Mercier Press
ISBN 13 : 9781856353441
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Short Stories of John B. Keane written by John B. Keane and published by Mercier Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are more shades to John B. Keane's humour than there are colours in the rainbow. Compassion, shrewdness and a glorious sense of fun and roguery are evident in this collection, which brings together all John B's short stories. Included are gems such as A Hanging and Guaranteed Pure.

Author : John B. Keane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Irish Short Stories written by John B. Keane and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John B Keane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781170144
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short Stories of John B. Keane written by John B Keane and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic pieces from the much loved John B. which represent the distillation of the experience of a funny, witty, wise and passionate observer of the bright tapestry of Irish life. This is a collection to prize. All human life is here, and Keane tells its story in an astonishing procession of remarkable characters and in rare humorous glimpses of his own career. There are more shades to John B. Keane's humour than there are colours in the rainbow. Compassion, shrewdness and a glorious sense of fun and roguery are evident in this collection, which brings together John B. Keane's tales. A fitting tribute to John B. Keane, for decades Ireland's favourite storyteller, this winning short story collection typifies the late author's folkloric imagination and storytelling arts.

Author : John B. Keane
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 : 0786748990
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Teapots Are Out and Other Eccentric Tales from Ireland written by John B. Keane and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2004-02-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fitting tribute to John B. Keane, for decades Ireland's favorite storyteller, this winning short story collection typifies the late author's folkloric imagination and storytelling arts. These are congenial tales, too, as this literary legend views the foibles and fallibilities of Irish country folk with abundant compassion as well as a shrewd, sometimes sardonic eye. Add to that Keane's glorious sense of fun and roguery that will make readers relish all the more how and why, in "Fred Rimble," Jim Conlon kills the best friend he ever had. Or how Willie Ramley determines that his future wife will be "Guaranteed Pure." Or how, to tragic as well as comic effect, a gasp, garlic, and gossip undo Denny Bruder in "The Hanging." In all, Keane uncovers the folly in the romantic pangs, exalted aspirations, misguided mischief, and everyday shortcomings of the characters in the village of his storyteller's mind-and beyond the folly finds their humanity.

Author : John B. Keane
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781856351560
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Celebrated Letters of John B. Keane written by John B. Keane and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 1996 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The humorous words of John B. Keane live on in Celebrated Letters of John B. Keane, More Celebrated Letters, The Best of John B. Keane and The Short Stories of John B. Keane.

Author : John B. Keane
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1781170177
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sive written by John B. Keane and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sive is a young and beautiful orphan who lives with her uncle Mike, his wife Mena and his mother Nanna. A local matchmaker, Thomasheen Seán Rua, wants Sive to marry an old man called Sean Dóta. Thomasheen convinces Mike and Mena to organise the marriage. They will receive a sum of two hundred pounds as soon as she marries him. However, Sive is in love with a young man, Liam Scuab. But Liam is not suitable and is refused permission to marry Sive. Sive is distraught but is forced to do the will of her uncle and his bitter wife. Faced with an unthinkable future she takes the only choice left to her. Set against the harsh poverty and difficult times of 1950s Ireland, Sive caused considerable controversy on its debut in February 1959. Since then it has become an established part of Ireland's theatrical canon.

Author : John B. Keane
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart International
ISBN 13 : 9781570980701
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Stories written by John B. Keane and published by Roberts Rinehart International. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keane, famous for his clear-sighted and humorous tales about his native land, writes with what Booklist has called the grace and fine ear for the Irish dialect that we expect. In this collection of his fiction, Keane reveals the qualities that have made him an Irish literary legend.

Author : John B. Keane
Publisher : Irish Amer Book Company
ISBN 13 : 9780853428190
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Short Stories written by John B. Keane and published by Irish Amer Book Company. This book was released on 1976 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John B. Keane
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 162873180X
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Irish Christmas Feast written by John B. Keane and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bountiful collection of more than fifty tales by one of Ireland’s liveliest and most popular writers offers holiday charm and Gaelic humor by the Christmas stockingful. Drawing on the rich folk culture of County Kerry, John B. Keane brings new life to old customs in his portrayals of not-so-ordinary country people during the Christmas season. Keane revisits the Christmases celebrated by characters like Dotie Tupper and Johnny Naile, the doughty Canon Doyle and deaf Canon Cornelius Coodle, the amiable spendthrift Aenias Mackson, and Hiccups O’Reilly, who disappears one Christmas Eve for seven years. Keane bears delightful witness to the trials and triumphs of the inhabitants of County Kerry, Ireland.

Author : Billy Keane
Publisher : Liberties Press
ISBN 13 : 190971819X
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ballad of Mo and G written by Billy Keane and published by Liberties Press. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Even though I wished it was me she was married to, I was still hoping Mo would be happy ever after with Dermo Olsen. That was until the violence started. I loved her that much. Can you believe that?" Welcome to an unnamed town in the southwest of Ireland, where Mo and G have what could loosely be described as a dysfunctional relationship. Between the sex (real and imagined), beatings (very real), and pining after Mo (very, very real), there's barely time for G to figure out how to escape his arch-enemies, the Olsens - or their bloodthirsty Dobermans - for good. G is plagued by nightmares, and sometimes tries to do the right thing. Very occasionally, he succeeds. In The Ballad of Mo and G, Billy Keane tackles lives lived on the edge with a sharp yet compassionate eye, and a biting black humour. An assured report from Ireland's dark, post-boom underbelly by a supremely talented storyteller.