Bryan MacMahon bol írsky dramatik, prozaik a autor poviedok, ktorého tvorba sa často zameriavala na život v Írsku. Ako bývalý učiteľ pristupoval k písaniu s precíznosťou a hĺbkou, skúmal ľudské skúsenosti a život na vidieku. Jeho štýl je známy svojou pozornosťou k detailom a schopnosťou zachytiť autentické hlasy postáv. MacMahonovo písanie ponúka čitateľom pohľad do írskej kultúry a tradícií.
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.