The Irish have a fabulous and rich heritage of story telling. There
are stories from as early as the 18th century with Oliver
Goldsmith's 'Adventures of a Strolling Player' right up to Desmond
Hogan's 'The Airedale' by way of Oscar Wilde, E PB Somerville and
Martin Ross, James Joyce, Joyce Cary, Liam O'Flaherty, William
Trevor, Edna O'Brien and Bernard MacLaverty. Delicious. (Kirkus UK)
Ireland has been called a nation of story-tellers. "Stories of one
kind or another have a way of pressing themselves into Irish
conversation, both as entertainment and as a form of
communication," writes William Trevor. "For centuries they have
been offered to strangers, almost as hospitality is: tall stories,
simple stories, stories of extraordinary deeds, of mysteries and
wonders, of gentleness, love, cruelty, and violence." Himself an
accomplished short story writer, Trevor has gathered here a
collection of stories that represent not only the best of Irish
short story writing, but the best of the genre.
Spanning the entire history of the Irish short story, from
folk-tales to modern writing, this is the most broad-ranging
anthology available. Included are such masters as James Joyce and
Elizabeth Bowen, who established Ireland at the forefront of the
modern short story, as well as Frank O'Connor and Sean O'Faolain,
the two most important writers since Joyce and Bowen. Trevor has
selected stories by Bernard McLaverty and Desmond Hogan to
represent the new generation of writers. But, as Elizabeth Bowen
observed, the modern short story in Ireland is "a young art," and
it is against the nation's deeply rooted oral tradition that it
must be considered. Toward this end, The Oxford Book of Irish Short
Stories includes seven folk tales translated from the Irish by Sean
O'Sullivan, and Seamus MacManus's re-telling of an Irish fairy
tale.
William Trevor is one of today's most famous and respected Irish
writers. (His work is represented here by the short story "Death in
Jerusalem.") The 45 stories he has selected for this anthology, for
which he has written a generous introduction, cover a 250-year
period and works by 35 authors. Together they demonstrate the
development of the short story in Ireland, a land where a flair for
storytelling has "become a national characteristic."
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