Son of Apple

by Maurice Walsh

A Collection of Irish Folk-tales. A pretelling, from a translation by Catriona Macleod, of an old Irish folk-tale collected in Kerry by Sheumas O'Duilearga M.A. (Professor of Folklore, University College, Dublin)

207 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1940

About the author

Maurice Walsh was an Irish novelist best known for the short story The Quiet Man which was later made into an Oscar-winning movie directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. Walsh was born in 1879 in Ballydonoghue near Listowel, Co. Kerry, Ireland. He was one of Ireland's best-selling authors in the 1930s.