Critical Commentary on Shorter Irish Fiction

  • Deborah M. Averill, The Irish Short Story from George Moore to Frank O’Connor (Washington: CUA Press [1982), x, 328pp.
  • James F. Kilroy, ed., The Irish Short Story: A Critical History (Boston: Twayne Publ. 1984), xiii, 251pp. [contribs. James F. Kilroy, Chron.,& Intro.; Gregory A. Schirmer, “Tales from big house and cabin; James F. Carens, “In quest of a new impulse”; James F. Kilroy, “Setting the standards”; Janet Egleson Dunleavy, “Mary Lavin, Elizabeth Bowen, and a New Generation”; Robert Hogan, “Old boys, Young Bucks, and New Women”].
  • Frank O’Connor, The Lonely Voice: Studies in the Short Story ( London: Macmillan 1967).
  • Heather Ingmar, A History of the Irish Short Story (Cambridge UP 2009), 326pp.
  • Patrick Rafroidi, Terence Brown, eds., The Irish Short Story (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe; NJ: Humanities Press 1979), 308pp.
  • George Brandon Saul, Rushlight Heritage: Reflections on Selected Irish Short-story Writers of the Yeatsian Era (Philadelphia: Walton Press [1969]), 140pp.
  • Richard J. Thompson, Everlasting Voices: Aspects of the Modern Irish Short Story (NY: Whitson Publ. 1989), 105pp.

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