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| Material Type: | Fiction |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Colm Tóibín |
| ISBN: | 0670891088 : 9780670891085 0670854972 9780670854974 |
| OCLC Number: | 42290921 |
| Description: | xxxiv, 1085 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Castle Rackrent / Maria Edgeworth -- Wildgoose Lodge / William Carleton -- The hungry death / Rosa Mulholland -- Home sickness / George Moore -- Nightfall / Daniel Corkery -- A glass of beer / James Stephens -- The dead / James Joyce -- The hawk / Liam O'Flaherty -- Her table spread / Elizabeth Bowen -- A dead cert / Sean O'Faolain -- On the empty shore / Seosamh Mac Grianna -- Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor -- First love / Samuel Beckett -- Company / Samuel Beckett -- Floodtide / Mairtin O Cadhain -- Exile's return / Bryan MacMahon -- The martyr's crown / Flann O'Brien -- Happiness / Mary Lavin -- The morning after the big fire / Maeve Brennan -- Homes on the mountain / Benedict Kiely -- The eagles and the trumpets / James Plunkett -- Memory and desire / Val Mulkerns -- Kathleen's field / William Trevor -- The hairdresser / Leland Bardwell -- Foundry House / Brian Friel -- Music at Annahullion / Eugene McCabe -- A Belfast woman / Mary Beckett -- Left of the door / Tom Mac Intyre -- Will You please go now / Julia O'Faolain -- The country funeral / John McGahern -- Life drawing / Bernard Mac Laverty -- Such good friends / Ita Daly -- Topping / Shane Connaughton -- Night in Tunisia / Neil Jordan -- Memories of swinging London -- Desmond Hogan -- A country dance / Mary Dorcey -- Nazi Christmas / Hugo Hamilton -- In the dark / Aidan Mathews -- The cantilever principle / Mary Morrissy -- (She owns) every thing / Anne Enright -- Slade / Frank Ronan -- Breakfast for Enrique / Colum McCann -- Going back / Emma Donoghue. |
| Other Titles: | Irish fiction |
| Responsibility: | edited with an introduction by Cólm Toibín. |
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