Charlie Chaplin's Wishbone Shane Tivenan Ten Thousand Saints raises fascinating

Ten Thousand Saints raises fascinating problems that take us beyond the frontiers of recorded history to the remote movements of European peoples

and Sarah Purser

while revealing the hitherto-unknown fate of ubiquitous informers enlisted by Dublin Castle

will find much to engross them

O’Connor’s work shows an uncanny aptitude for carrying over into English verse many of the riches to be found in the originals – the ancient voice of the Hag of Beare lamenting her decline into old age

Charlie Chaplin's Wishbone Shane Tivenan Ten Thousand Saints raises fascinatingThese twelve masterful short stories are by one of Irelands leading practitioners of the art (previous collections include Adventures in a Bathyscope, 1998, and Lipstick on the Host, 1992). Aidan Mathews is a writer worthy of Joyce, whose condensed language conveys learning, sophistication, true feeling and poignancy. The range of subject matter is conveyed in the story titles: Charlie Chaplins Wishbone, Access, Barber Surgeons, Waking a Jew, Cuba,