These five short stories show us that Pearse was a man of deep understanding with immense human awareness of the way of life of the average person. He analyses the sorrows and joys of the Irish people of his time and writes of the tragedies of life and death from which they could never escape.
Patrick Henry Pearse (also known as Pádraig or Pádraic Pearse; Irish: Pádraig Anraí Mac Piarais; 10 November 1879 - 3 May 1916) was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist, republican political activist and revolutionary who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916.
Desmond Maguire, a journalist well known for his writings in Irish and English, shows his fascination for the tenderness and dignity portrayed in these stories, particularly in IOSAGAN, which he describes as the most beautiful short story ever to come out of Ireland.