STORIES TOLD AT IRISH PEAT FIRES

The author lived in Ireland for about ten years in the 90s of the last millennium. During this time, the stories of the planned book series were written down. These stories mix fact and fiction. It is about the traditional storytelling of the old days in Ireland. The idea came to him at a storytelling festival in the small western Irish town of Kiltimagh, which he attended for the first time. However, he got his inspiration from the stories told by the people around the crackling peat fires, which conjured up a mystical atmosphere to accompany the stories.

In the first story, the narrator finds himself on on death row. He is said to be a parricide.
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In the title story, the narrator in Kinnegad picks up an elderly hitchhiker, late at night in the dark and in stormy weather. He takes her with him to Moate and is rawn into a maelstrom of eerie stories that go back to the 16th century. Has he fallen into the night of the eternal judgement of blood? A curse from the past? On this night the devil takes a traveller every 70 years with the help of an old woman who joins him on the way.
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In the next 4 stories, a traveller from Donegal has his say. He talks about the profession of a dream designer, about a vain survivalist, about a ruler whose greed for power and vanity become his downfall and a "fairy tale" about addiction, deceit and self-deception.
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In the last story, the author really lets it rip. It is guaranteed to have no deeper meaning. As Albert Einstein so aptly put it: Even the meaningless still has its loose meaning.