The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories

Famous novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist

• The hour of death; Fionn in search of his youth; Cromwell and the friar; the Girl and the Sailor; the Four-leafed Shamrock and the Cock; the Cow that Ate the Piper; Conal and Donal and Taig; Adventures of a Strolling Player, Oliver Goldsmith; the Limerick Gloves, Maria Edgeworth; the Death of a Devotee, William Carleton; the Brown Man, Gerald Griffin; Green Tea, Sheridan Le Fanu; Albert Nobbs, George Moore; the Sphinx without a Secret, Oscar Wilde; Philippa's Fox-hunt, E.E.Somerville and Martin Ross; the Priest, Daniel Corkery; the Weaver's Grave, Seumas O'Kelly; the Dead, James Joyce; my Little Black Ass, Padraic O Conaire; the Triangle, James Stephens; Bush River, Joyce Cary; the Pedlar's Revenge, Liam O'Flaherty; the Fanatic, Lian O'Flaherty; Her Table Spread, Elizabeth Bowen; the Faithless Wife, Sean O'Faolain; the Sugawn Chair, Sean O'Faolain; Guests of the Nation, Frank O'Connor; the Majesty of the Law, Frank O'Connor; Pastorale, Patrick Boyle; the Hare-lip, Mairtin O'Cadhain; the Poteen Maker, Michael McLaverty; the Ring, Bryan MacMahon; Sarah, Mary Lavin; Desert Island, Terence De Vere White; the Pilgrims, Benedict Kiely; Weep for our Pride, James Plunkett; Loser, Val Mulkerns; the Bird I Fancied, Aidan Higgins; Death in Jerusalem, William Trevor; the Diviner, Brian Friel; an Occassion of Sin, John Montague; Irish Revel, Edna O'Brien; First Conjugation, Julia O'Faolain; the Beginning of an Idea, John McGahern; Life Drawing, Bernard MacLaverty; the Airedale, Desmond Hogan.

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