Modern Irish Short Stories ed. Ben Forkner (Abacus, August 2002, 0-349-10485-9, 558pp, tp, an)
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- · Preface · Anthony Burgess · pr (r)
- · Introduction · Ben Forkner · in (r)
- · Home Sickness · George Moore · ss Harper’s Weekly August 16 1902
- · Poisson d’Avril · E. Œ. Somerville · ss (r)
- · The Twisting of the Rope · W. B. Yeats · ss The Daily Mail February 15 1934
- · An Autumn Night in the Hills · J. M. Synge · ss (r)
- · Rock-of-the-Mass · Daniel Corkery · ss (r)
- · The Weaver’s Grave · Seumas O’Kelly · ss (r)
- · The Blind Man · James Stephens · ss (r)
- · The Dead · James Joyce · na The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914
- · The Pedlar’s Revenge · Liam O’Flaherty · ss Collier’s July 25 1953
- · Summer Night · Elizabeth Bowen · ss Look at All Those Roses by Elizabeth Bowen, Gollancz, 1941
- · Falling Rocks, Narrowing Road, Cul-de-Sac, Stop · Sean O’Faolain · ss Playboy June 1972
- · In the Train · Frank O’Connor · ss Lovat Dickson’s Magazine June 1935
- · George · Patrick Kavanagh · ss (r)
- · Pastorale · Patrick Boyle · ss (r)
- · Dante and the Lobster · Samuel Beckett · ss 1934
- · Six Weeks On and Two Ashore · Michael McLaverty · ss (r)
- · Exile’s Return · Bryan MacMahon · ss The Red Petticoat and Other Stories by Bryan MacMahon, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1955
- · The Martyr’s Crown · Flann O’Brien · ss Stories and Plays by Flann O’Brien, Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1973
- · Happiness · Mary Lavin · ss The New Yorker December 14 1968
- · A Ball of Malt and Madame Butterfly · Benedict Kiely · nv The Kenyon Review v31 #2, 1969
- · A Walk Through the Summer · James Plunkett · ss (r)
- · Killachter Meadow · Aidan Higgins · ss (r)
- · The Ballroom of Romance · William Trevor · nv The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories by William Trevor, Bodley Head, 1972
- · The Creature · Edna O’Brien · ss (r)
- · Cancer · Eugene McCabe · ss Victims by Eugene McCabe, Gollancz, 1976
- · All Sorts of Impossible Things · John McGahern · ss Ploughshares Spring 1980
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