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Viking
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1085

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Table of Contents

Introduction Page ix
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), from Gulliver's Travels Page 3 Laurence Sterne (1713-68), from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. Page 40 Frances Sheridan (1724-66), from Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph Page 75 Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74), from The Vicar of Wakefield Page 85 Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849), from Castle Rackrent Page 95 Charles Robert Maturin (1782-1824), from Melmoth the Wanderer Page 146 Lady Morgan (1783-1859), from The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys Page 161 William Carleton (1794-1869), 'Wildgoose Lodge' Page 172 from The Black Prophet Page 185 John Banim (1798-1842), from The Croppy Page 196 Gerald Griffin (1803-40), from The Collegians Page 203 Charles Lever (1806-72), from St Patrick's Eve Page 217 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), from Uncle Silas Page 229 Anthony Trollope (1815-82), from The Kellys and the O'Kellys Page 239 from Phineas Finn Page 255 Rosa Mulholland (1841-1921), 'The Hungry Death' Page 268 Emily Lawless (1845-1913), from Hurrish Page 283 Bram Stoker (1847-1912), from Dracula Page 288 George Moore (1852-1933), from Esther Waters Page 315 'Home Sickness' Page 328 Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), from The Picture of Dorian Gray Page 336 Edith Somerville (1858-1949) and Martin Ross (1862-1915), from The Real Charlotte Page 346 Robert Tressell (1870-1911), from The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists Page 355 Katherine Cecil Thurston (1875-1911), from The Fly on the Wheel Page 361 Daniel Corkery (1878-1964), 'Nightfall' Page 367 James Stephens (1882-1950), from The Crock of Gold Page 371 'A Glass of Beer' Page 375 James Joyce (1882-1941), 'The Dead' Page 379 James Joyce (1882-1941), from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Page 407 James Joyce (1882-1941), from Ulysses Page 415 James Joyce (1882-1941), from Finnegans Wake Page 453 Peadar O'Donnell (1893-1986), from The Knife Page 459 Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984), from Mr. Gilhooley Page 463 'The Hawk' Page 467 K. Arnold Price (1896-1989), from The New Perspective Page 470 Kate O'Brien (1897-1974), from The Land of Spices Page 475 from The Anteroom Page 488 Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), 'Her Table Spread' Page 494 from The Last September Page 499 Sean O'Faolain (1900-1991), 'A Dead Cert' Page 509 Seosamh Mac Grianna (1901-90), 'On the Empty Shore' Page 516 Francis Stuart (1902-): from Black List, Section H Page 519 Frank O'Connor (1903-66), 'Guests of the Nation' Page 526 Molly Keane (1904-96), from Two Days in Aragon Page 534 Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967), from Tarry Flynn Page 544 Samuel Beckett (1906-89), from Murphy Page 556 'First Love' Page 558 from Malone Dies Page 569 'Company' Page 583 Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906-70), 'Floodtide' Page 598 Michael McLaverty (1907-92), from Call My Brother Back Page 606 Bryan MacMahon (1909-98), 'Exile's Return' Page 610 Sam Hanna Bell (1909-90), from December Bride Page 618 Flann O'Brien (1911-66), 'The Martyr's Crown' Page 622 from At Swim-Two-Birds Page 626 from The Third Policeman Page 639 Mary Lavin (1912-96), 'Happiness' Page 650 Maeve Brennan (1917-93), 'The Morning After the Big Fire' Page 661 Iris Murdoch (1919-99), from The Red and the Green Page 663 Benedict Kiely (1919-), 'Homes on the Mountain' Page 673 James Plunkett (1920-), 'The Eagles and the Trumpets' Page 681 Brian Moore (1921-99), from Black Robe Page 698 Val Mulkerns (1925-), 'Memory and Desire' Page 706 Anthony Cronin (1925-), from The Life of Riley Page 715 Aidan Higgins (1927-), from Balcony of Europe Page 719 John Broderick (1927-89), from The Trials of Father Dillingham Page 728 William Trevor (1928-), 'Kathleen's Field' Page 732 Leland Bardwell (1928-), 'The Hairdresser' Page 745 Brian Friel (1929-), 'Foundry House' Page 749 Eugene McCabe (1930-), 'Music at Annahullion' Page 758 Mary Beckett (1930-), 'A Belfast Woman' Page 767 Jennifer Johnston (1930-), from The Captains and the Kings Page 776 Tom Mac Intyre (1931-), 'Left of the Door' Page 786 Edna O'Brien (1932-), from The Country Girls Page 787 Julia O'Faolain (1932-), 'Will You Please Go Now' Page 794 Maurice Leitch (1933-), from Stamping Ground Page 802 John McGahern (1934-), from The Barracks Page 813 'The Country Funeral' Page 834 Seamus Deane (1940-), from Reading in the Dark Page 858 Mary Leland (1941-), from The Killeen Page 861 Bernard Mac Laverty (1942-), 'Life Drawing' Page 865 Ita Daly (1945-), 'Such Good Friends' Page 873 John Banville (1945-), from Birchwood Page 881 from The Book of Evidence Page 886 Shane Connaughton (1946-), 'Topping' Page 895 Dermot Healy (1947-), from A Goat's Song Page 906 Clare Boylan (1948-), from Holy Pictures Page 912 Neil Jordan (1950-), 'Night in Tunisia' Page 920 Desmond Hogan (1951-), 'Memories of Swinging London' Page 929 Mary Dorcey (1951-), 'A Country Dance' Page 936 Hugo Hamilton (1953-), 'Nazi Christmas' Page 948 Carlo Gebler (1954-), from The Cure Page 952 David Park (1954-), from The Healing Page 959 Sebastian Barry (1955-), from The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty Page 964 Patrick McCabe (1955-), from The Butcher Boy Page 969 Aidan Mathews (1956-), 'In the Dark' Page 978 Mary Morrissy (1957-), 'The Cantilever Principle' Page 986 Roddy Doyle (1958-), from The Snapper Page 991 Dermot Bolger (1959-), from The Journey Home Page 1000 Deirdre Madden (1960-), from Remembering Light and Stone Page 1010 Eoin McNamee (1961-), from Resurrection Man Page 1016 Anne Enright (1962-), '(She Owns) Every Thing' Page 1025 Glenn Patterson (1962-), from Burning Your Own Page 1027 Joseph O'Connor (1963-), from Cowboys and Indians Page 1034 Frank Ronan (1963-), 'Slade' Page 1042 Robert McLiam Wilson (1964-), from Eureka Street Page 1047 Colum McCann (1965-), 'Breakfast for Enrique' Page 1059 Emma Donoghue (1969-), 'Going Back' Page 1065 Biographical Notes Page 1075 Acknowledgements Page 1083 Copyright Acknowledgements Page 1084

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New York
Other Titles
Irish fiction

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.008/09417
Library of Congress
PR8875 .P46 2000, PR8875.P46 2000

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Editor
Colm Tóibín

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p. cm.
Number of pages
1085

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OL45630M
ISBN 10
0670854972
LCCN
99042909
OCLC/WorldCat
42290921
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56858
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3486204

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