Stories teeming with life, with characters more concerned about their neighbours' business than the troubles of the world beyond Galway. Twenty-one stories of birth, love, death; of people happy and sad - publicans, poets, children, tinkers, snobs and sweethearts.... When Walter Macken died in 1968 he left unpublished a number of short stories. This volume brings together those thought by Margaret Macken and by his publisher to be the best of them. Too few to make up a full-scale collection in themselves, yet too fine to remain unpublished, they are accompanied here by thirteen stories from Walter Macken's earlier collection, The Green Hills.