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44 Irish Short Stories: An Anthology of Irish Short Fiction from Yeats to Frank O'Connor
44 Irish Short Stories An Anthology of Irish Short Fiction from Yeats to Frank O'Connor Author:Devin A. Garrity The Irish have always had a way with words. Long ago they took on a language not their own and learned to re-word it into pure magic. Nowhere is this magic more in evidence than in their short stories—stories that combine lyricism, humor and tragedy with rare imagination set in simple backgrounds, largely without props. — The seemingly effo... more »rtless art of the best Irish writers has an appeal that is naive and highly sophisticated at the same time; the disarming simplicity with which the tales are spun being somewhat misleading at first reading.
In this anthology there are gathered, for the first time in America, some of the more representative examples of Irish short fiction. The emphasis is on variety. All are a delight to read. All have universal appeal. Only 21 of the 44 have previously been published in this country.
She went by gently / Paul Vincent Carroll --
The islandman / Desmond Clarke --
The lady on the Grey / John Collier --
The awakening ; The return / Daniel Corkery --
Saint Bakeoven / Eric Cross --
The kith of the elf-folk / Lord Dunsany --
The burial / St. John Ervine --
Something in a boat / Padraic Fallon --
Miss Gillespie and the micks / Arnold Hill --
The leaping trout / David Hogan --
Araby ; Counterparts / James Joyce --
Football / Patrick Kavanagh --
The story of the widow's son / Mary Lavin --
"All the sweet buttermilk--
" ; Duet for organ and string / Donagh MacDonagh --
Myself and a rabbit / Michael MacGrian --
The wild duck's nest ; Father Christmas / Michael McLaverty --
The plain people of England ; The cat and the cornfield / Bryan MacMahon --
Julia Cahill's curse / George Moore --
The world outside / Val Mulkerns --
The devil and O'Flaherty / Padraic O Conaire --
The drunkard ; The majesty of the law / Frank O'Connor --
Teresa ; Persecution mania / Sean O'Faolain --
The hawk ; The tent / Liam O'Flaherty --
Michael and Mary ; Nan Hogan's house / Seumas O'Kelly --
The martyr's crown / Brian O'Nolan --
Bell Wethers / Jim Phelan --
Weep for our pride / James Plunkett --
The miraculous revenge / George Bernard Shaw --
The black mare / Edward Sheehy --
Schoolfellows ; A rhinoceros, some ladies and a horse / James Stephens --
Come back, my love / Maurice Walsh --
The happy prince / Oscar Wilde --
Red Hanrahan ; Where there is nothing, there is God / William Butler Yeats« less