Willy Reilly Summary
William Carleton

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. I am agreeably called upon by my bookseller to prepare for a Second Edition of “Willy Reilly.”  This is at all times a pleasing call upon an author; and... Read more

William Carleton was a storyteller first and last. Unlike other Irish literary nationalists of the nineteenth century, he did not look for his true subject in the distant past--in nostalgia or in the ... Read more