Helen Constantine

Eve Patten

Paul Delaney

Dublin Tales

This original new study explores the recent flowering of short fiction in Ireland, analysing the production, dissemination, and reception of the short form in the twenty-first century, and reading contemporary short stories in their many configurations and guises. This volume covers twenty-five years of Irish writing, beginning in late 1997 with the establishment of the innovative literary periodical The Stinging Fly, and concludes in 2022. The book is structured in five parts, with each part focusing on a particular mode of publication: periodicals, single-author volumes, short-story cycles, edited anthologies, and small or independent presses. Each part includes a series of case studies while also engaging with a diverse range of short-story criticism and theory, both comparative and Irish-centered. Anthologisation and Irish Short Fiction brings different writers at distinct stages of their careers into conversation, and This volume aims to illuminate the contemporaneous value of this body of work, its innovative and varied use, and the diversity of its practice. Particular attention is also shown to the fluidity of the short form, to its capacity to disrupt and arrest, and to its progressive, writerly potential.

Magnitudes of Telling

Anthologisation and Irish Short Fiction

Adrian Hunter

The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Ranging across texts from different parts of the English-speaking world, it studies the form in its many guises and venues of publication.

The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English

Another original and eclectic collection of modern poetry by Paul Delaney, suitable for children aged 11+ and teenagers and adults. Every school English department should have a copy at hand! 'My favourite trainers' includes funny poems, poignant poems and deep, thought provoking poems too, proving that Paul Delaney is a keen observer of all things connected to human life and existence! Try it and see! x

My Favourite Trainers! (2nd Edition)

When Norris Snoot arrives at Vicarage Primary School, wrapped inside a tall roll of carpet, heads naturally turn. Norris' family have entered a million pound competition. The idea is simple - If they can live inside carpets for a whole year, they'll win a that life-changing cash prize. The school bully, Clive Cooper-West, aka 'Gripper' picks on Norris, aided and abetted by his grandfather, Mr Hooper, who also happens to be the school's bungling head teacher. Gripper makes everybody's life at the school hell, especially Norris, who he particularly doesn't like because of his strange choice of clothing - his carpet. Norris, helped by his Mum and Dad, hatches out a madcap plan to rid the school of Gripper and his grandad. If 'Operation pink underpants' works, life at Vicarage Primary school will never be the same again. 'One of the funniest books I've ever read!' Korky Paul (Winnie the Witch)

Norris Snoot

Sparrowlegs

Examines the life and works of the Irish author, discussing the conflicts in the biographies of Eamon de Valera and offering a study of O'Faolâain's diversity and influence.

Literature, Inheritance and the 1930s

Sean O'Faolain

"To date no full-length studies of Colm Toibin's work have been published in Ireland or overseas, and only a few short essays have appeared in specialist academic journals and general surveys of recent Irish literature. This collection of essays fills this noticeable gap in contemporary criricisrn, and provides an illuminating exploration of many of the themes and concerns which have engaged Toibin ever since the publication of his first book, Walking Along the Border (1987). The collection provides a series of reflections and includes essays by some of the most prominent figures currently working in Irish Studies. The book also includes a lengthy interview of Toibin conducted by his former Magill associate, Fintan O'Toole."--BOOK JACKET.

Reading Colm Tóibín

Michael Parker

William Trevor: Revaluations offers a comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of one of the most accomplished and celebrated practitioners writing in the English language: the author of fifteen novels, three novellas and eleven volumes of short stories, as well as plays, radio and TV adaptations and film screenplays. Drawing on the talents of a team of distinguished international scholars, this volume shines a critical light on Trevor’s core concerns with individuality and the family, and cultural and national identity, extending significantly the scope of current scholarship. Essays scrutinise the author’s prolonged concern with domestic, communal and national violence, his interrogation of patterns of inheritance and ideological heritage, and the impact of the past on choices his characters make. William Trevor: Revaluations is a groundbreaking collection of essays, and will also be seen as a definitive introduction to the work of a major contemporary novelist and short-story writer.

Revaluations

William Trevor

Provides a clear introduction to the key terms and frameworks in cognitive poetics and stylistics

Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English

The first scholarly edition of Stevenson's essays, involving a full and comparative examination of manuscripts, magazine and volume publications

Paul Delaney

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