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The Tinker of Tamlacht

Seumas MacManus

First published April 1903
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

    6000 words, estimate
  • Published April 1903 (earliest?) in The Cosmopolitan 34.6, p673-78; with 8 b/w drawings by Frederic Dorr Steele (viewed at HathiTrust Digital Library)
  • Published in Macmanus, Lo, and Behold Ye! (Stokes, (c)1919), chapter VI, p84-98 with 1 plate by Mabel Hatt; {{LCCN|19-15487}} (viewed at HathiTrust) Revised. --at least as described here: In April 1903, the Tinker bargains to be "a young fellow again of eighteen" and becomes "a strapping, young fellow of eighteen". In 1917, to be "a strappin' young fellow again of one-and-twenty" and becomes "a strappin' young fellow of one-an'-twenty".

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
April 1903 Cover The Cosmopolitan, April 1903 The Cosmopolitan Press MAGAZINE 673
1917 Lo, and Behold Ye! Frederick A. Stokes Company Collection 84
1958 Cover Deals with the Devil Dodd, Mead & Co. Anthology 141
1959 Cover Deals with the Devil Faber and Faber Anthology 151
1963 Cover Hibernian Nights Macmillan Collection 10
1965 Hibernian Nights Macmillan Collection 10
1966 Cover Hibernian Nights Macmillan Collection 10