Table of Contents

Introduction
The Hour of Death
Fionn in Search of his Youth
Cromwell and the Friar
The Girl and the Sailor
The Four-leafed Shamrock and the Cock
The Cow that ate the Piper
Conal and Donal and Taig
Oliver Goldsmith: Adventures of a Strolling Player
Maria Edgeworth: The Limerick Gloves
William Carleton: The Death of a Devotee
Gerald Griffin: The Brown Man
Sheridan Le Fanu: Green Tea
George Moore: Albert Nobbs
Oscar Wilde: The Sphinx without a Secret
E.E. Somerville and Martin Ross: Philippa's Fox Hunt
Daniel Corkery: The Priest
Seumas O'Kelly: The Weaver's Grave
James Joyce: The Dead
Padraic O Conaire: My Little Black Ass
James Stephens: The Triangle
Joyce Carey: Bush River
Liam O'Flaherty: The Pedlar's Revenge
Liam O'Flaherty: The Fanatic
Elizabeth Bowen: Her Table Spread
Sean O'Faolain: The Faithless Wife
Sean O'Faolain: The Sugawn Chair
Frank O'Connor: Guests of the Nation
Frank O'Connor: The Majesty of the Law
Patrick Boyle: Pastorale
Mairtan O Cadhain: The Hare-Lip
Michael McLaverty: The Poteen Maker
Bryan MacMahon: The Ring
Mary Lavin: Sarah
Terence De Vere White: Desert Island
Benedict Kiely: The Pilgrims
James Plunkett: Weep for our Pride
Val Mulkerns: Loser
Aidan Higgins: The Bird I Fancied
William Trevor: Death in Jerusalem
Brian Friel: The Diviner
John Montague: An Occasion of Sin
Edna O'Brien: Irish Revel
Julia O'Faolain: First Conjugation
John McGahern: The Beginning of an Idea
Bernard Mac Laverty: Life Drawing
Desmond Hogan: The Airedale
Acknowledgements
Index of Authors

About the Author

William Trevor, novelist, short story writer, and dramatist, is the author of The Ballroom of Romance, Angels at the Ritz, The News from Ireland, and numerous other works.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition The very best of centuries of Irish short fiction...A classic, take-your-breath-away collection cannily assembled by a master of the medium William Trevor'
Observer

`Review from previous edition The very best of centuries of Irish short fiction...A classic, take-your-breath-away collection cannily assembled by a master of the medium William Trevor' Observer