Bryan MacMahon byl irský dramatik, romanopisec a autor povídek, jehož dílo se často zaměřuje na život v Irsku. Jako bývalý učitel přistupoval ke svému psaní s precizností a hloubkou, zkoumal lidské zkušenosti a venkovský život. Jeho styl je známý svou pozorností k detailu a schopností zachytit autentické hlasy postav. MacMahonovo psaní nabízí čtenářům pohled do irské kultury a tradic.
This collection looks at the years of innocence, the pains and pleasures of schooldays and the struggles of adolescence in stories by such writers as Seamus Heaney, Roddy Doyle, Flann O'Brien, William Trevor, Bryan MacMahon, Samuel Beckett, Neil Jordan, Sean O'Faolain, Edna O'Brien, Brian Friel, Maeve Binchy, Brendan Behan and many more.
Winner of the 1993 American Ireland Fund Literary Award. MacMahon is one of Ireland's great writers, a teacher who, to use his own inimitable phrase, has left 'the track of his teeth on a parish for three generations'. This account of his life has all the magic, drama, love of language, and love of Ireland that has made him famous as a talker, ballad-maker, playwright, novelist, and short-story writer of international stature.