The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story

The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story
Author: Anne Enright
Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: English fiction
ISBN: 9781847080974

The Man Booker prize-winning author's selection of the best Irish short stories of the last sixty years, following Richard Ford's bestselling Granta Book of the American Short Story.

New Irish Short Stories

New Irish Short Stories
Author: Various
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2011-03-17
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0571255280

Edited by Joseph O'Connor (author of Star of the Sea and Ghost Light) New Irish Short Stories is a stunning collection from a fascinating variety of writers, both new and established. Featuring, among many others, William Trevor and Roddy Doyle, Rebecca Miller and Richard Ford, Christine Dwyer Hickey and Colm Toibin, it shows the short story to be a vibrant, thriving form and one that should continue to be celebrated and encouraged. This collection follows the two acclaimed editions David Marcus edited for Faber in 2004-5 and 2006-7.

The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories

The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories
Author: William Trevor
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-03-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780199583140

Ireland has always been a nation of story-tellers. This magnificent anthology chronicles the development of a rich literary tradition, from the earliest folk-tales to James Joyce, Liam O'Flaherty, and the rising stars of the new generation.

Classic Irish Short Stories

Classic Irish Short Stories
Author: Frank O'Connor
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1985
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780192819185

The stories collected here demonstrates the richness of the short story tradition in Ireland from the end of the last century to the period following the Second World War. The authors represented are: George Moore, Somerville and Ross, Daniel Corkery, Jame Stephens, Liam O'Flaherty, L.A.G. Strong, Sean O'Faoláin, Frank O'Connor, Eric Cross, Michael McLaverty, Bryan MacMahon, Mary Lavin, James Plunkett, James Joyce, and Elizabeth Bowen. `this is as good a collection of stories as you could find anywhere and fully deserves its new description "classic".' Books and Bookmen

A History of the Irish Short Story

A History of the Irish Short Story
Author: Heather Ingman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 579
Release: 2009-05-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 113947412X

Though the short story is often regarded as central to the Irish canon, this text was the first comprehensive study of the genre for many years. Heather Ingman traces the development of the modern short story in Ireland from its beginnings in the nineteenth century to the present day. Her study analyses the material circumstances surrounding publication, examining the role of magazines and editors in shaping the form. Ingman incorporates recent critical thinking on the short story, traces international connections, and gives a central part to Irish women's short stories. Each chapter concludes with a detailed analysis of key stories from the period discussed, featuring Joyce, Edna O'Brien and John McGahern, among others. With its comprehensive bibliography and biographies of authors, this volume will be a key work of reference for scholars and students both of Irish fiction and of the modern short story as a genre.

Being Various

Being Various
Author: Various
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2019-05-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0571342515

Featuring brand new short stories from Kevin Barry, Eimear McBride, Belinda McKeon, Lisa McInerney, Danielle McLaughlin, Stuart Neville, Sally Rooney, Kit de Waal and many more.Ireland is going through a golden age of writing: that has never been more apparent. I wanted to capture something of the energy of this explosion, in all its variousness... Following her own acclaimed short-story collection, Multitudes, Lucy Caldwell guest-edits the sixth volume of Faber's long-running series of all new Irish short stories, continuing the work of the late David Marcus and subsequent guest editors, Joseph O'Connor, Kevin Barry and Deirdre Madden.

44 Irish Short Stories

44 Irish Short Stories
Author: Devin A. Garrity
Publisher: Gramercy
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1955
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The Irish have always had a way with words. Long ago they took on a language not their own and learned to re-word it into pure magic. Nowhere is this magic more in evidence than in their short stories--stories that combine lyricism, humor and tragedy with rare imagination set in simple backgrounds, largely without props. The seemingly effortless art of the best Irish writers has an appeal that is naive and highly sophisticated at the same time; the disarming simplicity with which the tales are spun being somewhat misleading at first reading. In this anthology there are gathered, for the first time in America, some of the more representative examples of Irish short fiction. The emphasis is on variety. All are a delight to read. All have universal appeal. Only 21 of the 44 have previously been published in this country.

The British and Irish Short Story Handbook

The British and Irish Short Story Handbook
Author: David Malcolm
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 7
Release: 2012-03-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1444330462

The British and Irish Short Story Handbook guides readers through the development of the short story and the unique critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction. It includes a wide-ranging analysis of non-canonical and non-realist writers as well as the major authors and their works, providing a comprehensive and much-needed appraisal of this area. Guides readers through the development of the short story and critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction Offers a detailed discussion of the range of genres in the British and Irish short story Includes extensive analysis of non-canonical writers, such as Hubert Crackanthorpe, Ella D’Arcy, T.F. Powys, A.E. Coppard, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Mollie Panter-Downes, Denton Welch, and Sylvia Townsend Warner Provide a wide-ranging discussion of non-realist and experimental short stories Includes a large section on the British short story in the Second World War

Great Irish Short Stories

Great Irish Short Stories
Author: Evan Bates
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012-03-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 048612147X

Features 13 captivating tales, from the early Irish prose fiction of Maria Edgeworth and William Carleton to the 20th-century works of William Butler Yeats, James Stephens, James Joyce, Seumas O'Kelly, and Liam O'Flaherty.

Who's Irish?

Who's Irish?
Author: Gish Jen
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-08-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307826546

In this dazzling collection of short stories, the award-winning author of the acclaimed novels Thank You, Mr. Nixon and Mona in the Promised Land—presents a "sparkling ... gently satiric look at the American Dream and its fallout on those who pursue it" (The New York Times). The stories in Who's Irish? show us the children of immigrants looking wonderingly at their parents' efforts to assimilate, while the older generation asks how so much selfless hard work on their part can have yielded them offspring who'd sooner drop out of life than succeed at it. With dazzling wit and compassion, Gish Jen looks at ambition and compromise at century's end and finds that much of the action is as familiar—and as strange—as the things we know to be most deeply true about ourselves.