The Turf-Cutters Donkey. An Irish Story of Mystery and Adventure. Illustrated by Jack B. Yeats. London: J.M. Dent, 1934. First Edition. Pp viii, 245. Cream cloth pictorial boards in original pictorial dust jacket. A nice bright copy.

Coloured frontispiece plate with five coloured Illustrations and eight in black & white by Jack B. Yeats.

Patricia Lynch (1898-1972) was an Irish author of children’s literature and a journalist. She is best known for blending Irish rural life and fantasy as in ‘The Turf-Cutter’s Donkey.’

This story concerns Seamus and Eileen, an enchanted teapot and the little grey donkey, Long Ears. The children meet a leprechaun, a golden eagle, the Salmon of Knowledge and Finn on their adventure.

A few sequels followed.