Dermot Bolger, ed., Picador Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction (Picador 1993; corr. edn. 1994), 518pp.

Writers included in extract

John Banville [from Mefisto] Leland Bardwell [The Hairdresser] Sebastian Barry [from The Engine of Owl-Light] Mary Beckett [Heaven] Samuel Beckett [For to End Yet Again] Sara Berkeley [The Sky’s Gone Out] Dermot Bolger [from The Journey Home] Clare Boylan [Villa Marta] Shane Connaughton [Ojus] Mary Dorcey [The Husband] Roddy Doyle [from The Snapper] Anne Enright [Men and Angels] Hugo Hamilton [from Surrogate City]; Aidan Higgins [from Balcony of Europe] Desmond Hogan [from A Curious Street] Jennifer Johnston [from The Christmas Tree] Neil Jordan [Last Rites] Molly Keane [from Good Behaviour] Maeve Kelly [Orange Horses] Benedict Kiely [from Proxopera] Mary Lavin [Happiness] Mary Leland [from The Killeen] Eugene McCabe [Cancer] Patrick McCabe [from The Butcher Boy]	John McGahern [High Ground] Tom McIntyre [The Man-Keeper] Bernard MacLaverty [Between Two Shores] Bryan MacMahon [A Woman’s Hair] Eoin MacNamee [If Angels had Wings] Deirdre Madden [Remembering Light and Stone] Aiden Matthews [Incident on El Camino Real] Gerardine [sic] Meaney [Counterpoint] Brian Moore [The Sight] Val Mulkerns [Memory and Desire] Eilís Ní Duibhne [Blood and Water] Edna O’Brien [from What a Sky] Bridget O’Connor [Postcards] Joseph O’Connor [Mothers were All the Same] Sean O’Faolain [The Talking Trees] Michael O’Loughlin [A Rock-’n-Roll Death] David Park [Oranges from Spain] Glenn Patterson [from Burning Your Own] Francis Stuart [from Black List, Section H] Colm Tóibín [from The Heather Blazing] William Trevor [The Ballroom of Romance] Robert McLiam Wilson [from Ripley Bogle]
Contains biographical notes giving titles without dates, pp;509-518.