A collection of delightful short stories from one of Ireland´s greatest ever writers, Brian Friel. Demonstrating all of Friel´s peerless instinct for voice, scene, and the uncanny mystery found in the everyday, these tales tell of beauty, struggle and discovery: from the drowning of a man in the bog-black waters of Lough Keeragh, to the camaraderie of teenage potato gathers in County Tyrone, and from the careful work of the German War Graves Commission in Glenn na fuiseog, to trawlermen´s talk of sunken gold off the coast of Donegal.