This anthology of Irish verse and prose is compiled by the Irish writer Molly Keane and her daughter Sally Phipps. The book uses a powerful love of Ireland and its people, with work by Swift, Joyce, Synge, O'Connor, Kinsella, Beckett, O'Faolain, Heaney, Campbell and McGuckian among others. Subjects range from God, exile, love and death to fairies, horse-racing, wit and whiskey.