Ireland
Author: Frank Delaney
Desc: In the winter of 1951 a storyteller arrives at the home of nine-year-old Ronan O'Mara in the Irish countryside. The last practitioner of an honored centuries-old tradition the Seanchai enthralls his assembled audience for three evenings running with narratives of foolish kings and fabled saints of enduring accomplishments and selfless acts -- until he is banished from the household for blasphemy and moves on. But these three incomparable nights have changed young Ronan forever setting him on the course he will follow for years to come -- as he pursues the elusive itinerant storyteller . . . and the magical tales that are no less than the glorious saga of his tenacious troubled and extraordinary isle.