In a farmhouse in County Sligo at the end of the eighteenth century, Maire Bruin, newly married to Shawn, would rather read of fairyland than tend the house. On May Eve the household lets in a strange child in a green jacket, and the priest Father Hart finds himself contending with the faery world for the young wife’s soul.
A short verse play of 1894, one of Yeats’s earliest works for the stage and a jewel of the Irish Revival. Download the free EPUB.