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First published in 1942, this book was bizarrely banned until the 1960s in Ireland. The life of the Irish tailor and storyteller, Timothy Buckley ( The Tailor) , and his wife Anastasia ("Ansty") Buckley (née McCarthy), who lived in a relatively remote location outside Gougane barra in Cork.
This edition with a number of striking woodcut illustrations by Robert Gibbings.
The Tailor and Ansty were a well-respected local married couple, who lived in the townland of Garrynapeaka near Gougane Barra.
Anastasia (1872-1947) was from this valley and the Tailor Buckley ‘Tim’ (1863-1945) was born in Kilgarvan in Co. Kerry and married into Ansty’s homeplace. He was a tailor, a well-known and much respected story teller and a conversationalist who conversed with many famous Irish writers and Gaelic scholars when they visited him in Garrynapeaka.
The book ‘The Tailor and Ansty’ was written, unknown to the couple, by a regular visitor to their house, a journalist, Eric Cross, detailing many of the Tailors stories and everyday happenings in their lives. The book is full of entertaining stories and his presentation of the facts of rural life as The Tailor and Ansty knew them was accurate and valuable.
The book was subsequently banned by the strict Irish Censorship Board in 1942.
In his introduction to the later editions of the book, Frank O Connor describes the effect of the banning of ‘The Tailor and Ansty’ by the Irish Censorship board 1942 for ‘being in its general tendency indecent’, and describes the reaction of the couple to three visiting priests who terrorised the Tailor into burning a copy of the book in his own fire.
After being banned for 10 years, it became available again and became a classic of folkloric literature.
The Tailors motto was ‘Glac bóg an saol agus glacfaidh an saol bóg thú’
(‘Take life fine and easy and life will be fine and easy on you.’)
The book ‘The Tailor and Ansty’ was written, unknown to the couple, by a regular visitor to their house, a journalist, Eric Cross, detailing many of the Tailors stories and everyday happenings in their lives. The book is full of entertaining stories and his presentation of the facts of rural life as The Tailor and Ansty knew them was accurate and valuable.
The book was subsequently banned by the strict Irish Censorship Board in 1942.
In his introduction to the later editions of the book, Frank O Connor describes the effect of the banning of ‘The Tailor and Ansty’ by the Irish Censorship board 1942 for ‘being in its general tendency indecent’, and describes the reaction of the couple to three visiting priests who terrorised the Tailor into burning a copy of the book in his own fire.
After being banned for 10 years, it became available again and became a classic of folkloric literature.
The Tailors motto was ‘Glac bóg an saol agus glacfaidh an saol bóg thú’
(‘Take life fine and easy and life will be fine and easy on you.’)
Condition dustmarked and tanned to covers and page block, light spotting and foxing to the page block ends, not ex library, otherwise unmarked.
Heavier (but uniform) tanning to the spine)
