The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories, ed. William Trevor (London: OUP 1989), 587pp.

Oxford Irish Stories

Contents p.
  • Introduction’ infra
  • “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”.
  • Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774), “Adventures of a Strolling Player”.
  • Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) “The Limerick Gloves”.
  • William Carleton (1794-1869), “The Death of a Devotee”.
  • Gerald Griffin (1803-1840), “The Brown Man”.
  • Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873), “Green Tea”.
  • George Moore (1852-1933), “Albert Nobbs”.
  • Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), “The Sphinx Without a Secret”.
  • E. OE. Somerville & Martin Ross (1858-1949 & 1862-1915), “Philippa’s Fox-Hunt”.
  • Daniel Corkery (1878-1964), “The Priest”.
  • Seumas O’Kelly (1881-1918), “The Weaver’s Grave”.
  • James Joyce (1882-1941), “The Dead”.
  • Padraic Ó Conaire (1882-1928), “My Little Black Ass”.
  • James Stephens (1882-1950), “The Triangle”.
  • Joyce Cary (1888-1957), “Bush River”.
  • Liam O’Flaherty (1896-1984), “The Pedlar’s Revenge”
    —, “The Fanatic”.
  • Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), “Her Table Spread”.
  • Sean O’Faolain (1900-), “The Faithless Wife’
    —, “The Sugawn Chair”.
  • Frank O’Connor (1903-1966), “Guests of the Nation”
    —, “The Majesty of the Law”.
  • Patrick Boyle (1905-1982), “Pastorale”.
  • Mairtín Ó Cadhain (1906-1970), “The Hare-Lip”.
  • Michael McLaverty (1907- ), “The Poteen Maker”.
  • Bryan MacMahon (1909- ), “The Ring”.
  • Mary Lavin (1912- ), “Sarab”.
  • Terence de Vere White (1912- ), “Desert Island”.
  • Benedict Kiely (1919- ), “The Pilgrims”.
  • James Plunkett (1920- ), “Weep for Our Pride”.
  • Val Mulkerns (1925- ), “Loser”.
  • Aidan Higgins (1927- ), “The Bird I Fancied”.
  • William Trevor (1928- ), “Death in Jerusalem”.
  • Brian Friel (1929- ), “The Diviner”.
  • John Montague (1929- ), “An Occasion of Sin”.
  • Edna O’Brien (1932- ), “Irish Revel”.
  • Julia O’Faolain (1933- ), “First Conjugation”.
  • John McGahern (1934- ), “The Beginning of an Idea”.
  • Bernard McLaverty (1942- ), “Life Drawing”.
  • Desmond Hogan (1951- ), “The Airedale”.
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