Colm
Tóibín, ed., The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (London: Penguin 1999)
CONTENTS:
lntroduction [ix]
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), from Gullivers Travels [3]
Laurence Stene (171 3-68), from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. [40]
Frances Sheridan (1724-66), from Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph [75]
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-;74), from The Vicar of Wakefield [85]
Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849), Castle Rackrent [95]
Charles Robert Maturin (1782-1824), from Melmoth the Wanderer [146]
Lady Morgan (1783-1859), from The OBriens and the OFlahertys [161]
William Carleton (1794-1869), Wildgoose Lodge [172];
from The Black Prophet [185]
John Banim (1798-1842), from The Croppy [196]
Gerald Griffin {1803-40), from The Collegians [203]
Charles Lever (1806-72), from St Patricks Eve [217]
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (J814-73), from Uncle Silas [229]
Anthony Trollope (1815-82), from The Kellys and the OKellys [239]; from Phineas Finn [255]
Rosa Mulholland (1841-l921), The Hungry Death [268]
Emily Lawless (1845-1913), from Hurrish [283]
Bram Stoker (1847-1912), from Dracula [288]
George Moore (1852-1933), from Esther Waters [315]; Home Sickness [328]
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), from The Picture of Dorian Gray [336]
Edith Somerville (1858-1949) and Martin Ross (1862-1915), from The Real Charlotte [346]
Robert Tressell (1870-1911), from The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists [355]
Katherine Cecil Thurston (1875-1911), from The Fly on the Wheel [361]
Daniel Corkery (1878-1964), Nightfall [367]
James Stephens (1882-1950), from The Crock of Gold [371]
, A Glass of Beer [371]
James Joyce (1882-1941), The Dead [379]; from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [407]; from Ulysses [415]; from Finnegans Wake [453]
Peadar ODonnell (1893-1986), from The Knife [459]
Liam OFlaherty (1896-1984), from Mr Gilhooley [463]; The Hawk [467]
K. Arnold Price (1896-1989), from The New Perspective [470]
Kate OBrien (1897-1974), from The Land of Spices [475]; from The Anteroom [488]
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), Her Table Spread [494]
from The Last September [499]
Sean OFaolain (1900-1991), A Dead Cert [509]
Seosamh Mac Grianna (1901-90), On the Empty Shore [516]
Francis Stuart (1902- ), from Black List, Section H [519]
Frank OConnor (1903-66), Guests of the Nation [526]
Molly Keane (1904-96), from Two Days in Aragon [534]
Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967), from Tarry Flynn [544]
Samuel Beckett (1906-89), from Murphy [556]; First Love [558]
from Malone Dies [569]; Company [583]
Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906-70), Floodtide [598]
Michael McLaverty (1907-92.), from Call My Brother Back [606]
Bryan MacMahon (1909-98), Exiles Return [610]
Sam Hanna Bell (1909-90), from December Bride [618]
Flann OBrien (1911-66), The Martyrs Crown [622]
from At Swim-Two-Birds [626]
from The Third Policeman [639]
Mary Lavin (1912.-96), Happiness [650]
Maeve Brennan (1917-93): The Morning after the Big Fire [661]
Iris Murdoch (1919-99), from The Red and the Green [663]
Benedict Kiely (1919- ), Homes on the Mountain [673]
James Plunkett (192.0- ), The Eagles and the Trumpets [681]
Brian Moore (1921-99), from Black Robe [698]
Val Mulkerns (1925- ), Memory and Desire [706]
Anthony Cronin (1925- ), from The Life of Riley [715]
Aidan Higgins (1927- ), from Balcony of Europe [719]
John Broderick (1927-89), from The Trials of Father Dillingham [728]
William Trevor (1928- ), Kathleens Field [732]
Leland Bardwell (1928- ), The Hairdresser [745]
Brian Friel (1929- ), Foundry House [749]
Eugene McCabe (1930- ), Music at Annahullion [758]
Mary Beckett {1930- ), A Belfast Woman [767]
Jennifer Johnston (1930- ), from The Captains and the Kings [776]
Tom Mac Intyre (1931- ), Left of the Door [786]
Edna OBrien (1930- ), from The Country Girls [787]
Julia OFaolain (1932- ), Will You Please Go Now [794]
Maurice Leitch (1933- ), from Stamping Ground [802]
John McGahern (1934- ), from The Barracks [813]; The Country Funeral [834]
Seamus Deane (1940- ), from Reading in the Dark [858]
Mary Leland (1941- ), from The Killeen [861]
Bernard Mac Laverty (1942- ), Life Drawing [865]
Ita Daly (1945- ), Such Good Friends [873]
John Banville (1945- ), from Birchwood [881]
from The Book of Evidence [886]
Shane Connaughton (1946- ), Topping [895]
Dermot Healy (1947- ), from A Goats Song [906]
Clare Boylan (1948- ), from Holy Pictures [912]
Neil Jordan (1950- ), Night in Tunisia [920]
Desmond Hogan (1951- ), Memories of Swinging London [929]
Mary Dorcey (1951- ), A Country Dance [936]
Hugo Hamilton (1953- ), Nazi, Christmas [948]
Carlo Gebler (1954- ) from The Cure [952]
David Park (1914- ), from The Healing [959]
Sebastian Barry (1955- ), from The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty [964]
Patrick McCabe ( 1955- ), from The Butcher Boy [969]
Aidan Mathews (1956- ), In the Dark [978]
Mary Morrissy (1957- ), The Cantilever Principle [986]
Roddy Doyle (1958- ), from The Snapper [991]
Dermot Bolger (1959- ), from The Journey Home [1000]
Deirdre Madden (1960- ), from Remembering Light and Stone [1010]
Eoin McNamee (1961- ), from Resurrection Man [1016]
Anne Enright (1962- ), (She Owns), Every Thing [1025]
Glenn Patterson (1962- ), from Burning Your Own [1021]
Joseph OConnor (1963- ), from Cowboys and Indians [1034]
Frank Ronan (1963- ), Slade [1042]
Robert McLiam Wilson (1964- ), from Eureka Street[1041]
Colum McCann (1965- ), Breakfast for Enrique [1059]
Emma Donoghue (1969- ), Going Back [1065].
Biographical Notes [1015]; Acknowledgements [1083]; Copyright Acknowledgements [1084]
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