The Turfcutter’s Donkey & Ryans Fort

Books by Patricia Lynch.

Patricia Lynch, children’s writer and journalist, was born in Cork c. 1884. She is best known for ‘The Turf-Cutter’s Donkey, first published in 1934, and illustrated by Jack Butler Yeats. Her semi-autobiographical A Story-Teller’s Childhood was published in 1974. She died at Monkstown, Co Dublin in 1972.

Ryan’s Fort, 1961, illustrated by Elizabeth Grant.

Lynch’s Work:

  • The Green Dragon (1925)
  • Cobbler’s Apprentice (1930)
    • The Turf-cutter’s Donkey: An Irish Story of Mystery and Adventure (1934)
    • The Donkey Goes Visiting: The Story of an Island Holiday (1935)
    • The Turf-Cutter’s Donkey Kicks Up His Heels (1939)
    • Long Ears (1943)
  • King of the Tinkers (1938)
  • The Grey Goose of Kilnevin (1939)
  • Fiddler’s Quest (1941)
  • Strangers at the Fair (1945)
  • Lisheen at the Valley Farm & Other Stories (1945)
  • Brogeen of the Stepping Stones (1947)
    • Brogeen Follows the Magic Tune (1952)
    • Brogeen and the Green Shoes (1953)
    • Brogeen and the Bronze Lizard (1954)
    • Brogeen and the Princess of Sheen (1955)
    • Brogeen and the Lost Castle (1956)
    • Brogeen and the Black Enchanter (1958)
    • The Stone House at Kilgobbin: a Brogeen Story (1959)
    • Brogeen and the Little Wind (1962)
    • Brogeen and the Red Fez (1963)
    • The Lost Fisherman of Carrigmor: a Brogeen Story (1960)
    • Guests at the Beech Tree: a Brogeen story (1964)
  • The Mad O’Haras (1948)
  • The Dark Sailor of Youghal (1951)
  • The Boy at the Swinging Lantern (1952)
  • Grania of Castle O’Hara (1952)
  • Delia Daly of Galloping Green (1953)
  • Orla of Burren: The Story of a Sea-Captain’s Daughter (1954)
  • Tinker Boy (1955)
  • The Bookshop on the Quay (1956) (alt. title Shane Comes to Dublin)
  • Cobbler’s Luck (1957)
  • Fiona Leaps the Bonfire (1957)
  • The Old Black Sea Chest: A Story of Bantry Bay (1958)
  • Jinny the Changeling (1959)
  • The Runaways (1959)
  • Sally from Cork (1960)
  • The Longest Way Round (1961)
  • Ryan’s Fort (1961)
  • The Golden Caddy (1962)
  • The House at Lough Neagh (1963)
  • Holiday at Rosquin (1964)
  • Mona of the Isle (1965)
  • Back of Beyond (1966)
  • The Kerry Caravan (1967)

Collections

  • Knights of God: Stories of the Irish Saints (1945)
  • Strangers at the Fair and Other Stories (1945)
  • The Seventh Pig and Other Irish Fairy Tales (1950)
  • Tales of Irish Enchantment (1952)
  • The Twisted Key and Other Stories (1964)

Autobiography

  • A Storyteller’s Childhood (1947)

Books from the McAllister Collection, the Museum of Childhood Ireland