Fairy Shysters April 26, 2012
Posted by Beachcombing in : Modern
One part of Beach’s fairy fascination with Ireland has been the whole question of what might be called ‘fairy shysters’. Sharp swindlers who, in the nineteenth and twentieth century, went around taking innocent and usually vulnerable men and women for ‘a ride’. Beach has gathered some remarkable examples together, including three extraordinary instances of ‘fairy [...]
