These six brilliantly enthralling stories will have you laughing and crying and desperate to know what happens next. They depict a nineteenth-century Ireland steeped in the supernatural in which both humans and fairies refuse to be defeated in their quest for the freedom to govern their own lives.
The Adventures of Darby O'Gill brings together the short stories originally published in Kavanagh's two books, Darby O'Gill and the Good People, and Ashes of Old Wishes. These stories, filled with humor and adventure, bring Irish fairy mythology to life, as Darby and other characters meet fairies, leprechauns, ghosts, a banshee, and other supernatural creatures.