CONTENTS
Foreword by Christopher Morash
William Carleton (1794–1869), “Wildgoose Lodge” (1833)
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–73), “The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh” (1838)
Katharine Tynan (1859–1931), “A Descendant of Irish Earls” (1894)
Edith Somerville (1858–1949) and Martin Ross (1862–1915), “A Nineteenth-Century Miracle” (1903)
Lady Augusta Gregory (1852–1932), “The Priest That Was Called Mad” (1906)
James Joyce (1882–1941), “The Dead” (1914)
Padraic O Conaire (1882–1928), “Knitting” (‘An Chniotail) (1922)
Liam O’Flaherty (1897–1984), “The Sniper” (1923)
Frank O’Connor (1903–66), “Guests of the Nation” (1931)
Samuel Beckett (1906–89), “Ding-Dong” (1934)
Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973), “The Last Night in the Old Home” (1934)
Sean O Faolain (1900–91), “A Broken World” (1937)
Norah Hoult (1898–1984), “The Story of Father Peter” (1938)
Flann O’Brien (1911–66), “John Duffy’s Brother” (1940)
Maeve Brennan (1917–93), “The Barrel of Rumours” (1954)
James Plunkett (1920–2003), “Dublin Fusilier” (1955)
Mary Lavin (1912–96), “In a Café” (1960)
John McGahern (1934–2006), “Bank Holiday” (1985)
Mike McCormack (b. 1965), “The Terms” (1996)
Claire Keegan (b. 1968), “Dark Horses” (2006)
Anne Enright (b. 1962), “Green” (2008)
Edna O’Brien (1930–2024), “Send My Roots Rain” (2009)
Colm Tóibín (b. 1955), “The Empty Family” (2010)
Roddy Doyle (b. 1958), “Two Pints × 4” (2011, 2012, 2016, 2019)
Eilis Ni Dhuibhne (b. 1954), “A Literary Lunch” (2012)
John Connolly (b. 1968), “A Dream of Winter” (2015)
Kevin Barry (b. 1969), “The Apparitions” (2016)
Lucy Caldwell (b. 1981), “Here We Are” (2016)
Cathy Sweeney (b. 1970), “The Door” (2018)
Sally Rooney (b. 1991), “Colour and Light” (2016)
Eoin McNamee (b. 1961), “Sable” (2020)
Yan Ge (b. 1984), “How I Fell in Love with the Well-Documented Life of Alex Whelan” (2023)
Lucy Sweeney Byrne (b. 1989), “Echolocations” (2024)
