Linked stories of Irish country life at the turn of the century: parishioners under the rule of their priests, young people driven to emigrate, the exile who comes home and cannot stay, a priest’s letter to Rome proposing that the clergy marry, and the curse laid on a village by Julia Cahill, the girl Father Madden drove away.
A landmark of Irish short fiction that paved the way for Joyce’s Dubliners. Download the free EPUB.