Hundreds of thousands of people all over Ireland were entertained and thrilled in their youth by reading the homely and racy adventures of Kitty the Hare in magazines and journals. Kitty was the famous travelling woman of Ireland and according to her, 'You'll find good, hospitable people everywhere you go in Ireland . . . I'm after travelling through Munster . . . and through most of Leinster and some of Connaught and part of Ulster as well as faith, so I know what I'm talking about . . .'

Here, for the first time, we have collected some of the best and most exciting of these stories and so as Kitty says, 'Let ye all gather close to me, and stir up the turf into a blaze, the way you'll have some sort of courage, Mossa, to listen to my tale . . .'