James Stevens (18801950) was an Irish novelist, poet and radio host of the BBC, a classic of 20th-century Irish literature, and a connoisseur and promoter of the medieval Irish language tradition. Stevens gave us five novels, three author's collections of tales, a scattering of small prose and incredibly diverse poetry. Stephens' style is not confused with anyone else's: he is ironic, incredibly rich and generous - and permeated with bottomless Irish history and music of the language. Stevens himself is more of a Joyce cohort, a bright bold modernist, an intelligent observant satirist, but his commitment to the Irish literary tradition, deep knowledge of the language, and strong national feeling have created a unique place for him in 20th-century Irish and world literature. "The Irish Miracle Tales" (1920) - a collection of ten ancient Irish legends in the reinterpretation of Stephens A true connoisseur and guardian of the ancient voices of Ireland, Stevens carefully and at the same time vividly and sparklingly shifted these phantasmagoria to a more understandable modern language, preserving the gem-like scattering of spoken speech that the emerald hills heard in time immemorial.