Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction
1: George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright): Mammy
2: James Joyce: Two Gallants
3: Liam O'Flaherty: The Sniper
4: Elizabeth Bowen: Unwelcome Idea
5: James Stephens: A Rhinoceros, Some Ladies, and a Horse
6: Brendan Behan: The Confirmation Suit
7: John McGahern: Sierra Leone
8: Val Mulkerns: Four Green Fields
9: Dara Ó Conaola: I nGleic (In a Pickle)
10: William Trevor: Two More Gallants
11: Mary O'Donnell: The Black Church
12: Éilís Ní Dhuibhne: Miss Moffat Goes to Town
13: Mirsad Ibisevic: Emigrant
14: Caitlín Nic Íomhair: Cíocras (Relentless)
15: Melatu Uche Okorie: Arrival
16: Kevin Power: Catastrophe
17: Caitriona Lally: Tramlines

About the Author

Eve Patten is Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute and Professor of English at Trinity College, Dublin, where she is a Fellow. A scholar in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and cultural history, she worked for the British Council before joining Trinity as a lecturer in 1996. She specializes in the modern Irish and British novel and was a regular reviewer of new Irish fiction for the Irish Times and other
publications for several years.
Paul Delaney is Associate Professor in the School of English, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. He is a scholar of twentieth-century and contemporary Irish writing, with particular focus in post-independence Irish literary culture and short fiction. He has written widely on Irish literature in peer-reviewed journals and publications. He joined Trinity as a lecturer in 2001, having completed his PhD at the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Research at the University of Kent
(Canterbury) where he was a Chevening Scholar.