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1085

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Subjects

Social life and customs, English fiction, Ireland in fiction, Irish authors, Fiction, English literature, irish authors, Ireland, fiction, English fiction, irish authors, English fiction (collections)

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Ireland

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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

Contributors

Editor
Colm Tóibín

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
1085

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ISBN 10
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LCCN
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OCLC/WorldCat
42290921
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