Research Catalog

Title

The Scribner book of Irish writing / edited and with an introduction by John Somer and John J. Daly.

Publication

• London : Scribner, 2001.
• ©2000

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Details

Additional Authors

• Daly, John J.
• Somer, John L.

Description

xv, 366 pages; 20 cm

Subject

• Short stories, Irish
• Short stories, English > Irish authors
• Manners and customs
• Short stories, English > Irish authors
• Short stories, Irish
• Ireland > Social life and customs > Fiction
• Ireland

Genre/Form

• short stories.
• Short stories
• Fiction
• Short stories.
• Fiction.
• Nouvelles.
• Romans.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-356).

Contents

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 / Éilís Ní 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
• 9780743208673

OCLC

• ocm45406026
• 45406026
• SCSB-1227454

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library