The Vintage Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction ed. Dermot Bolger (Vintage Books, December 1995, 978-0-679-76546-2, $14.00, 561pp, tp, an)
Reprint (Picador 1994 as The Picador Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction) anthology.
Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson.
- vii · Introduction · Dermot Bolger · in
- 3 · For to End Yet Again · Samuel Beckett · ss (r)
- 9 · The Man-Keeper · Tom MacIntyre · ss (r)
- 14 · The Talking Trees · Sean O’Faolain · ss Playboy January 1969
- 29 · The Killeen · Mary Leland · ex Atheneum, 1985
- 36 · A Curious Street · Desmond Hogan · ex Hamish Hamilton, 1985
- 44 · Black List, Section H · Francis Stuart · ex Southern Illinois University Press, 1971
- 57 · The Christmas Tree · Jennifer Johnston · ex Hamish Hamilton, 1981
- 67 · High Ground · John McGahern · ss The New Yorker March 22 1982
- 79 · Postcards · Bridget O’Connor · ss (r)
- 83 · A Woman’s Hair · Bryan MacMahon · ss (r)
- 91 · Balcony of Europe · Aidan Higgins · ex Calder & Boyars, 1972
- 95 · Happiness · Mary Lavin · ss The New Yorker December 14 1968
- 113 · Blood and Water · Éilís Ní Dhuibhne · ss (r)
- 126 · Ojus · Shane Connaughton · ss (r)
- 142 · The Butcher Boy · Patrick McCabe · ex Picador, 1992
- 152 · Villa Marta · Clare Boylan · ss (r)
- 161 · Burning Your Own · Glenn Patterson · ex Chatto & Windus, 1987
- 171 · Cancer · Eugene McCabe · ss Victims by Eugene McCabe, Gollancz, 1976
- 187 · The Ballroom of Romance · William Trevor · nv Transatlantic Review #42/43, Spring/Summer 1972
- 209 · Good Behavior · Molly Keane · ex Knopf, 1981
- 216 · Last Rites · Neil Jordan · ss Night in Tunisia, and Other Stories by Neil Jordan, Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative, 1979
- 226 · Between Two Shores · Bernard MacLaverty · ss (r)
- 240 · Heaven · Mary Beckett · ss (r)
- 250 · Memory and Desire · Val Mulkerns · ss (r)
- 265 · The Husband · Mary Dorcey · ss (r)
- 282 · What a Sky · Edna O’Brien · ss The New Yorker July 10 1989
- 295 · The Snapper · Roddy Doyle · ex Penguin, 1990
- 303 · Oranges from Spain · David Park · ss Critical Quarterly v31 #2, 1989
- 319 · If Angels Had Wings · Eoin McNamee · ss (r)
- 325 · Proxopera · Benedict Kiely · ex David R. Godine, 1979
- 334 · Orange Horses · Maeve Kelly · ss (r)
- 348 · The Journey Home · Dermot Bolger · ex Viking, 1990
- 357 · The Heather Blazing · Colm Tóibín · ex Picador, 1992
- 373 · Mothers Were All the Same · Joseph O’Connor · ss (r)
- 387 · The Sky’s Gone Out · Sara Berkeley · ss (r)
- 398 · Ripley Bogle · Robert McLiam Wilson · ex Blackstaff Press, 1989
- 405 · Surrogate City · Hugo Hamilton · ex Faber and Faber, 1990
- 418 · A Rock-’n’-Roll Death · Michael O’Loughlin · ss (r)
- 425 · Remembering Light and Stone · Deirdre Madden · ex Faber and Faber, 1992
- 432 · The Engine of Owl-Light · Sebastian Barry · ex Carcanet Press, 1988
- 442 · The Sight · Brian Moore · nv Irish Ghost Stories ed. Joseph Hone, Hamish Hamilton, 1977
- 463 · Incident on El Camino Real · Aidan Mathews · ss (r)
- 481 · Men and Angels · Anne Enright · ss (r)
- 490 · Counterpoints · Gerardine Meaney · ss Second Blackstaff Book of Short Stories ed. Michael Carragher, Blackstaff Press, 1992
- 496 · The Hairdresser · Leland Bardwell · ss (r)
- 504 · Mefisto · John Banville · ex Secker & Warburg, 1986
- 511 · The Death of Matti Bonner · Dermot Healy · ss (r)
- 520 · Absent Children · John MacKenna · vi (r)
- 524 · Divided Attention · Mary Morrissy · ss (r)
- 534 · Through the Field · Colum McCann · ss (r)
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