| Description |
xvi, 567 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 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 -- Adventures of a strolling player / Oliver Goldsmith -- The limerick gloves / Maria Edgeworth -- The death of the devotee / William Carleton -- The brown man / Gerald Griffin -- Green tea / Sheridan Le Fanu -- Albert Nobbs / George Moore --The sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde -- Philippa's fox-hunt / E. OE. Somerville and Martin Ross -- The priest / Daniel Corkery -- The weaver's grave / Seumas O' Kelly -- The dead / James Joyce -- My little black ass / Padraic O Conaire -- The triangle / James Stephens -- Bush river / Joyce Cary -- The pedlar's revenge / Liam O' Flaherty -- The fanatic / Liam O' Flaherty -- Her table spread / Elizabeth Bowen -- The faithless wife / Sean O' Faolain -- The sugawn chair / Sean O' Faolain -- Guests of the nation / Frank O' Connor -- The majesty of the law / Frank O' Connor / Pastorale / Patrick Boyle -- The hare-lip / Mairtin O Cadhain / The Poteen Maker / Michael McLaverty / The ring / Bryan MacMahon -- Sarah / Mary Lavin -- Desert Island / Terence De Vere White -- The Pilgrims / Benedict Kiely -- Weep for our pride / James Plunkett -- Loser / Val Mulkerns / The bird I fancied / Aidan Higgins -- Death in Jerusalem / William Trevor -- The diviner / Brian Friel -- An occasion of sin / John Montague -- Irish Revel / Edna O' Brien -- First conjugation / Julia O' Faolin -- The beginning of an idea / John McGahern -- Life drawing / Bernard Mac Laverty -- The airedale / Desmond Hogan. |
| Subject |
Short stories, Irish.
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Short stories, Irish. |
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Ireland -- Fiction.
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Ireland. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Indexed Term |
Short stories in English Irish writers, 1900- - Anthologies |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Trevor, William, 1928-2016.
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| ISBN |
0192141805 : $22.50 (U.S.) |
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