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The Scribner book of Irish writing

Title: The Scribner book of Irish writing / edited and with an introduction by John Somer and John J. Daly.
Publication: London : Scribner, 2001.

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Description

xv, 366 pages; 20 cm

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Contents

Introduction: Cathal's "Peculiar Curse": Politics and the Contemporary Writer -- Summer Night / Elizabeth Bowen -- Nightwind / John Banville -- The Bombs / Desmond Hogan -- Between Two Shores / Bernard MacLaverty -- Near the Bone / Cherry Smyth -- The Little Madonna / Clare Boylan -- En Famille / Rita Kelly -- Shepherd's Bush / Maeve Binchy -- Naming the Names / Anne Devlin -- Telling / Evelyn Conlon -- Seven Pictures Not Taken / Emma Donoghue -- The Strangest Feeling in Bernard's Bathroom / Aidan Mathews -- The Story of the German Parachutist Who Landed Forty-Two Years Late / Aidan Mathews -- What Are Cicadas / Anne Enright -- Men and Angels / Anne Enright -- The Hands of Dingo Deery / Patrick McCabe -- Telescope / Ronan Sheehan -- Persona / John Banville -- The Making of a Bureaucrat / Michael O'Loughlin -- Lord McDonald / Eamonn Sweeney -- A Sense of Humour / Mary Dorcey -- The Garden of Eden / Eilis Ni Dhuibhne -- The Long Way Home / Joseph O'Connor --
Fishing the Sloe-Black River / Colum McCann -- Cathal's Lake / Colum McCann -- The Dream of a Beast / Neil Jordan.

ISBN

0743208676

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries