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Cnuasach gearrscéalta le Pádraig Mac Piarais, eagrán SCOILE, foilsithe ag Comhlacht Oideachais na hÉireann. Tá roinnt gearrscéalta breise san eagrán seo, a scríobh an Piarsach don nuachtán An Claidheamh Soluis , chomh maith leis Na Bóithre, Eoghanín na n-Éan, Iosagán agus gearrscéalta cáiliúla eile.
A vintage undated ( but 1970's) edition of the important work which was once to be found in almost every school bag in Connemara and throughout Ireland. As well as some of Pádraic Mac Piarais's writings from An Claidheamh Soluis, this collection also includes the most well known of Mac Piarais's short stories which have been loved by generations of Irish readers. The characters in these stories remain as compelling as ever. Illustrated.
Pádraic Mac Piarais was born in Dublin in 1879. He first took an interest in the Irish language as a child and played an active role in Conradh na Gaeilge from 1896. He was appointed as the editor of An Claidheamh Soluis in 1903 and started creative writing in 1905; writing essays, plays, short stories.