Irish Walls

by Alen MacWeeney

Walls are more important than people," Thomas Conneely declared. 'You see people everywhere in the world, and they're more or less the same" But every wall has its special character and function, like the one he'd just built to prevent the winter tide from washing away the field in front of his house, or like the one he was working on at the back of the island to make a field secure against rabbits, which are the bane of agriculture on the Aran islands. The stones are nice, he concluded. They don't insult you.

138 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1986