Teeney O'Feeney, King of the Leprechauns

About the Book

Jim wrote Teeney O’Feeney many years ago as a bedtime story for his children. It is a tale about the King of the Leprechauns who tries to help the world and begin to show people how to change their ways. He wanted to bring the little people in Fairyland to the attention of his children and show how these characters from the mythical world might help us help ourselves. Jim rediscovered the manuscript in an old file, and with the gas crisis in 1973 and the advent of recycling and concerns for the environment, he thought it the right time to publish the story for his now Grandchildren and their children. The wonderful illustrations by artist Larry MacDougall display the many characters that inhabit the magic world of Irish folklore. The theme has a relevancy for the new culture and global world we now live in and reinforces the old proverb that history repeats itself.

About the Author

Jim is retired from Philadelphia Electric (PECO), and resides in Drexel Hill, Pa. and Sea isle City, NJ. He and his wife Lois had four children with Patricia, James and Steven still living in Drexel Hill. Their daughter Kathleen DiGirolamo died in 1994, age 29. Tague served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War as part of the occupation of Germany 1951-54. He holds a BS degree in Economics from Villanova University and a MA degree in Liberal Arts from Temple University. He has already published several books: The Trochilus Bird, Freddy the Football, Rufus Tweed, Essays from the Past, The Krankel Family, and Teeney O’Feeney: King of the Leprechauns.