Modern Irish Short Stories

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Pub. Date: 1995-09-01
Publisher(s): Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 11(4)
Preface 15(6)
Anthony Burgess
Introduction 21(24)
Ben Forkner
``Home Sickness''
45(15)
George Moore
``Poisson d'Avril''
60(14)
E. OE. Somerville
Martin Ross
``The Twisting of the Rope''
74(9)
W. B. Yeats
``An Autumn Night in the Hills''
83(8)
J. M. Synge
``Rock-of-the-Mas''
91(21)
Daniel Corkery
``The Weaver's Grave''
112(56)
Seumas O'Kelly
``The Blind Man''
168(8)
James Stephens
``The Dead''
176(49)
James Joyce
``The Pedlar's Revenge''
225(17)
Liam O'Flaherty
``Summer Night''
242(36)
Elizabeth Bowen
``Falling Rocks, Narrowing Road, Cul-de-Sac, Stop''
278(35)
Sean O'Faolain
``In the Train''
313(18)
Frank O'Connor
``George''
331(7)
Patrick Kavanagh
``Pastorale''
338(15)
Patrick Boyle
``Dante and the Lobster''
353(14)
Samuel Beckett
``Six Weeks On and Two Ashore''
367(13)
Michael McLaverty
``Exile's Return''
380(14)
Bryan MacMahon
``The Martyr's Crown''
394(6)
Flann O'Brien
``Happiness''
400(20)
Mary Lavin
``A Ball of Malt and Madame Butterfly''
420(25)
Benedict Kiely
``A Walk Through the Summer''
445(31)
James Plunkett
``Killachter Meadow''
476(20)
Aidan Higgins
``The Ballroom of Romance''
496(23)
William Trevor
``The Creature''
519(8)
Edna O'Brien
``Cancer''
527(15)
Eugene McCabe
``All Sorts of Impossible Things''
542
John McGahern

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