Frank O’Connor 
The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed Ireland 

 »Father,  » I said, feeling I might as well get it over while I had him in a good humour,  »I had it all arranged to kill my grandmother. »
Praised as Ireland »s Chekhov, Frank O »Connor was a modern master of the short story. From an amateur brass band divided by partisanship to English soldiers who befriend their Irish captors, and from a child »s comic confession to the end of a small-town friendship, these four humorous and tragic stories refract universal truths through the prism of 20th-century Ireland.
This book contains The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed Ireland, Guests of the Nation, A Story by Maupassant, and First Confession.