The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction

by Toibin, Colm

• ISBN13: 9780670854974
• ISBN10: 0670854972
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Viking Pr

Summary

A compilation of the best in Irish short fiction includes excerpts from Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," James Joyce's "The Dead," and works by Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde, Emma Donoghue, Bram Stoker, and other notable authors.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
from Gulliver's Travels	3	(37)
Jonathan Swift
from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent	40	(35)
Laurence Sterne
from Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph	75	(10)
Frances Sheridan
from The Vicar of Wakefield	85	(10)
Oliver Goldsmith
Castle Rackrent	95	(51)
Maria Edgeworth
from Melmoth the Wanderer	146	(15)
Charles Robert Maturin
from The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys	161	(11)
Lady Morgan
`Wildgoose Lodge'	172	(24)
William Carleton
from The Black Prophet	185	(11)
from the Croppy	196	(7)
John Banim from
from The Collegians	203	(14)
Gerald Griffinr
from St Patrick's Eve	217	(12)
Charles Lever
from Uncle Silas	229	(10)
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
from The Kellys and the O'Kellys	239	(29)
Anthony Trollope
from Phineas Finn	255	(13)
`The Hungry Death'	268	(15)
Rosa Mulholland
from Hurrish	283	(5)
Emily Lawless
from Dracula	288	(27)
Bram Stoker
from Esther Waters	315	(21)
George Moore
`Home Sickness'	328	(8)
from The Picture of Dorian Gray	336	(10)
Oscar Wilde
from The Real Charlotte	346	(9)
Edith Somerville
Martin Ross
from The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists	355	(6)
Robert Tressell
from The Fly on the Wheel	361	(6)
Katherine Cecil Thurston
`Nightfall'	367	(4)
Daniel Corkery
from The Crock of Gold	371	(8)
James Stephens
`A Glass of Beer'	375	(4)
`The Dead'	379	(80)
James Joyce
from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	407	(8)
from Ulysses	415	(38)
from Finnegans Wake	453	(6)
from The Knife	459	(4)
Peadar O'Donnell
from Mr Gilbooley	463	(7)
Liam O'Flaherty
`The Hawk'	467	(3)
from The New Perspective	470	(5)
K. Arnold Price
from the Land of Spices	475	(19)
Kate O'Brien
from The Anteroom	488	(6)
`Her Table Spread'	494	(15)
Elizabeth Bowen
from The Last September	499	(10)
`A Dead Cert'	509	(7)
Sean O'Faolain
`On the Empty Shore'	516	(3)
Seosamh Mac Grianna
from Black List, Section H	519	(7)
Francis Stuart
`Guests of the Nation'	526	(8)
Frank O'Connor
from Two Days in Aragon	534	(10)
Molly Keane
from Tarry Flynn	544	(12)
Patrick Kavanagh
from Murphy	556	(42)
Samuel Beckett
`First Love'	558	(11)
from Malone Dies	569	(14)
`Company'	583	(15)
`Floodtide'	598	(8)
Mairtin O Cadhain
from Call My Brother Back	606	(4)
Michael McLaverty
`Exile's Return'	610	(8)
Bryan MacMahon
from December Bride	618	(4)
Sam Hanna Bell
`The Martyr's Crown'	622	(28)
Flann O'Brien
from At Swim-Two-Birds	626	(13)
from The Third Policeman	639	(11)
`Happiness'	650	(11)
Mary Lavin
`The Morning after the Big Fire'	661	(2)
Maeve Brennan
from The Red and the Green	663	(10)
Iris Mudoch
`Homes on the Mountain'	673	(8)
Benedict Kiely
`The Eagles and the Trumpets'	681	(17)
James Plunkett
from Black Robe	698	(8)
Brian Moore
`Memory and Desire'	706	(9)
Val Mulkerns
from The Life of Riley	715	(4)
Anthony Cronin
from Balcony of Europe	719	(9)
Aidan Higgins
from The Trials of Father Dillingham	728	(4)
John Broderick
`Kathleen's Field'	732	(13)
William Trevor
`The Hairdresser'	745	(4)
Leland Bardwell
`Foundry House'	749	(9)
Brian Friel
`Music at Annahullion'	758	(9)
Eugene McCabe
`A Belfast Woman'	767	(9)
Mary Beckett
from The Captains and the Kings	776	(10)
Jennifer Johnston
`Left of the Door'	786	(1)
Tom Mac Intyre
from The Country Girls	787	(7)
Edna O'Brien
`Will You Please Go Now'	794	(8)
Julia O'Faolain
from Stamping Ground	802	(11)
Maurice Leitch
from The Barracks	813	(45)
John McGahern
`The Country Funeral'	834	(24)
from Reading in the Dark	858	(3)
Seamus Deane
from The Killeen	861	(4)
Mary Leland
`Life Drawing'	865	(8)
Bernard Mac Laverty
`Such Good Friends'	873	(8)
Ita Daly
from Birchwood	881	(14)
John Banville
from The Book of Evidence	886	(9)
`Topping'	895	(11)
Shane Connaughton
from A Goat's Song	906	(6)
Dermot Healy
from Holy Pictures	912	(8)
Clare Boylan
`Night in Tunisia'	920	(9)
Neil Jordan
`Memories of Swinging London'	929	(7)
Desmond Hogan
`A Country Dance'	936	(12)
Mary Dorcey
`Nazi Christmas'	948	(4)
Hugo Hamilton
from The Cure	952	(7)
Carlo Gebler
from The Healing	959	(5)
David Park
from the Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty	964	(5)
Sebastian Barry
from The Butcher Boy	969	(9)
Patrick McCabe
`In the Dark'	978	(8)
Aidan Mathews
`The Cantilever Principle'	986	(5)
Mary Morrissy
from The Snapper	991	(9)
Roddy Doyle
from The Journey Home	1000	(10)
Dermot Bolger
from Remembering Light and Stone	1010	(6)
Deirdre Madden
from Resurrection Man	1016	(9)
Eoin McNamee
`(She Owns) Every Thing'	1025	(2)
Anne Enright
from Burning Your Own	1027	(7)
Glenn Patterson
from Cowboys and Indians	1034	(8)
Joseph O'Connor
`Slade'	1042	(5)
Frank Ronan
from Eureka Street	1047	(12)
Robert McLiam Wilson
`Breakfast for Enrique'	1059	(6)
Colum McCann
`Going Back'	1065	(10)
Emma Donoghue
Biographical Notes	1075	(8)
Acknowledgements	1083	(1)
Copyright Acknowledgements	1084