Lyrical, dark, comic or iconoclastic, the Irish short story has always
punched well above its weight. Anne Enright has brought together a
dazzling collection of Irish stories by authors born in the twentieth
century - from Mary Lavin and Frank O'Connor to Claire Keegan and Kevin
Barry. With a pithy and passionate introduction by Enright, The Granta
Book of the Irish Short Story traces this great tradition through
decades of social change and shows the pleasure Irish writers continue
to take in the short-story form. Deft and often devastating, the short
story dodges the rolling mythologies of of Irish life to produce truths
that are delightful and real. Also includes stories by: Maeve Brennan,
Roddy Doyle, Mary Lavin, Colum McCann, William Trevor, John McGahern,
Colm Tóibín, Claire Keegan and Kevin Barry.