Further information: Jim McDonnell: Recent Irish Short Stories
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THE GRANTA BOOK OF THE IRISH SHORT STORY, Edited by Anne Enright (new softcover copies may be found through bookfinder.com for as little as $10.95)
First Class Introduction
*James Joyce, PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST: Christmas Dinner
*Edna O’Brien, from The Country Girls
John Banville, Summer Voices (51)
Second Class Clare Boylan, Villa Marta (179)
Neil Jordan, Night in Tunisia (233)
Aidan Matthews, Train Tracks (306)
Claire Keegan, Men and Women (388)
Third Class Val Mulkerns, Memory and Desire (136)
*Ita Daly, Such Good Friends
*Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Blood and Water
Fourth Class John McGahern, The Key (264)
Colum McCann, Everything in this Country Must (343)
William Trevor, The Dressmaker’s Child ((411)
Fifth Class Roddy Doyle, The Pram (12)
*Eugene McCabe, Heaven Lies about Us
Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Midwife to the Fairies (380)
Sixth Class *Seamus Deane, The Facts of Life
Colm Toibin, A Priest in the Family (274)
*William Trevor, Of the Cloth
Seventh Class Joseph O’Connor, Mothers Were all the Same (399)
*Emma Donoghue, Going Back
Final Class Bernard MacLaverty, Language Truth and Lockjaw (367)
*Anne Enright, Solstice & The Hotel
*Sally Rooney, Color and Light & Unread Messages
Stories marked with * will be made available as attachments or handouts at no charge to students.