| Nightlines (1970) |
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| “Coming into His Kingdom ” |
first publ. in Kilkenny Magazine 10 (Autumn-Winter 1963). |
| “Strandhill, The Sea” |
first publ. as “Summer at Strandhill”, in The New Yorker (21 September 1963); rep. with num. amendments as “Strandhill, The Sea” in The Irish Press (27 April 1968); rep. in New Irish Writers 1: An Anthology from ‘the Irish Press' Series, ed. David Marcus (Dolmen Press 1970). |
| “Why We're Here” |
first publ. in The Cork Review: A Magazine of Poetry and Criticism (April 1968); rep. in Sunday Tribune (19 July 1981), Colour Supplement. [See also “‘Why We’re Here’: A Story”, in Cork Review, ed. Sean Dunne [‘Seán O Faoláin Special Issue’] 1991, pp.49-50.] |
| “Christmas” |
first publ. in The Irish Press (27 April 1968).
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| “The Key” |
first publ. as ”Bomb Box” in The Listener (25 December 1969); so printed in Nightlines (1970); amended version as ”The Key” in Collected Stories (1992).
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| “Korea” |
first publ. in Atlantic Monthly (October 1969).
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| “Wheels” |
first publ. in Nightlines. |
| “Hearts of Oak and Bellies of Brass” |
first publ. in Nightlines. |
| “Lavin” |
first publ. in Nightlines. |
| “My Love, My Umbrella” |
first publ. in Nightlines (1970); rep. in
Body and Soul: Irish Short Stories of Sexual Love ed. David Marcus (Poolbeg 1979). |
| “Peaches” |
first publ. in Nightlines; not incl. in Love of the World. |
| “The Recruiting Officer” |
first publ. in Nightlines; rep. in The Substance of Things Hoped For: Short Fiction by Modern Catholic Authors, ed. J. B. Breslin (Doubleday 1987). |
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| Getting Through (1978) |
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| “Swallows” |
first publ. in Evening Herald (20 December 1971); rep. in The London Magazine (December 1971-January 1972); also in The London Magazine, 1961-85, ed. Alan Ross (Chatto & Windus in 1986).
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| “The Beginning of an Idea” |
first publ. in The New Review (August 1974); rep. in The New Review Anthology ed. Ian Hamilton (Heinemann 1985); The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories ed. William Trevor (OUP 1989). Not included in Love of the World.
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| “The Stoat” |
First publ. in unidentified journal (photocopy). |
| “A Slip-up” |
First publ. in Strand (June 1975); rep. in Ploughshares III (1977); rep. in The Leitrim Guardian, 10 (1978). |
| “Faith, Hope and Charity” |
First publ. in The New Review (October 1975); rep. in The Irish Press (20 November 1976).
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| “All Sorts of Impossible Things” |
First publ. in Encounter (6 December 1975); rep. in The Irish Press (8 May 1976); Ploughshares 6 (1980); Best Irish Short Stories ed. David Marcus (Paul Elek 1976); Modern Irish Short Stories, ed. Ben Forkner (Viking/Penguin 1980); and The Ploughshares Reader: New Fiction for the Eighties, ed. Dewitt Henry (Pushcart Press 1985). |
| “The Wine Breath” |
First publ. in The New Yorker (4 April 1977); rep. in in The Bodley Head Book of Irish Short Stories, ed. David Marcus (Lane 1980); also in Irish Short Stories (NEL 1982). |
| “Sierra Leone” |
First publ. in The New Yorker (22 August 1977); revised for Getting Through. |
| “Doorways” |
First publ. in Getting Through. |
| “Along the Edges” |
First publ. in Getting Through. |
| “Gold Watch” |
First publ. in The New Yorker (17 March 1980); also in US edition of Getting Through (Harper & Row 1980) and British edition of High Ground (Faber 1985). |
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| High Ground (1985) |
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| “High Ground” |
First publ. in The New Yorker (22 March 1982). |
| “Parachutes” |
First publ. in Encounter (February 1983); rep. in The Irish Press (14 April 1983) and The Irish Literary Supplement [Boston College] (Spring 1984).
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| “Crossing the Line” |
First publ. in The New Yorker (1 August 1983); rep. in Modern Irish Short Stories, ed. Caroline Walsh (The Irish Times 1986).
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| “A Ballad” |
First publ. in Ireland and the Arts, ed. Tim Pat Coogan (Quartet 1983).
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| “Oldfashioned” |
First publ. in The Yale Review (April 1984); rep. in Threshold (Winter 1983/1984). |
| “Eddie Mac” |
First publ. in
The New Yorker (3 December 1984); rep. in The Irish Press (8 March 1985). |
| “Like All Other Men” |
First publ. in
The Yale Review (April 1985); rep. in Firebird 4: New Writing from Britain and Ireland (Penguin 1985). |
| “Bank Holiday” |
First publ. in The Irish Times (9 August 1985) |
| “The Conversion of William Kirkwood” |
First publ. in High Ground. |
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| Collected Stories (1992) |
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| “The Creamery Manager” |
First publ. in The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies (July 1991). |
| “The Country Funeral” |
Rep. in The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction ed. Colm Tóibín (Penguin 2001). |
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| The Creatures of the Earth (2006) |
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| “Love of the World” |
First publ. in Granta: The Magazine of New Writing (Autumn 1997); broadcast on BBC3 [”Spirit of the Place” ser.] (25 May 1997).
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| Others |
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| “The White Boat” |
First publ. in New Writing 6: An Anthology, ed. A.S. Byatt & Peter Porter (Vintage 1997). [Not incl. in Creatures of the Earth].
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