An Irish Christmas Feast: The Best of John B. Keane's Christmas Stories
John B. Keane
Hardcover
With enough good cheer to warm the heart throughout the Christmas
season and the long nights of winter, Keane's playful volume revisits
the Christmases eccentrically celebrated by the likes of 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 for seven years. Keane bears delightful
witness to the strengths and failings, the trials and triumphs, of the
simple but not so ordinary folk of rural Ireland.