Colourful, vivid, whimsical, these stories bring alive the fireside scene of bygone days. Everything is told as if it happened to the storyteller himself, and as if these extra-ordinary events could happen to you or anybody. Patrick Kennedy (1801-1873) was a Dublin bookseller, who spent the first twenty years of his life in Wexford. Fifty years after he heard his stories at some fireplace, in some kitchen, he wrote them...