Bryan MacMahon, an Irish writer of some fame, lived from September 29, 1909 to February 13, 1998. According to one blurb, MacMahon was:
Winner of the 1993 American Ireland Fund Literary Award. MacMahon is one of Ireland's great writers, a teacher who, to use his own inimitable phrase, has left 'the track of his teeth on a parish for three generations'. This account of his life has all the magic, drama, love of language, and love of Ireland that has made him famous as a talker, ballad-maker, playwright, novelist, and short-story writer of international stature.
MacMahon was from Listowel, County Kerry. His books include The Lion Tamer, and Other Stories (1949) and The Red Petticoat and Other Stories (1955). His autobiography he titled, The Master (1994). One of his sons is currently a judge on the Irish High Court.
It is a story included in The Red Petticoat that caught our intention today:
"The Cat and the Cornfield" in the words of the author "tells of a cat who betrayed its master, a parish clerk, who had lured a tinker girl into a cornfield."
"The Cat and the Cornfield" is English for "O Gato e o Milharal"
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