The Vintage Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction

This dazzling anthology, edited and introduced by Dermot Bolger, is a splendidly comprehensive and up-to-the-minute collection of the finest recent fiction from a nation of master storytellers. This collection of astonishing breadth reveals a literature of genuine global stature, as ancient as the Irish Sea.

Contributors and stories include: John Banville, from Mefisto; Leland Bardwell, The Hairdresser ; Sebastian Barry, from The Engine of Owl-Light; Mary Beckett, Heaven ; Samuel Beckett, For to End Yet Again ; Sara Berkeley, The Sky’s Gone Out ; Dermot Bolger, The Journey Home ; Claire Boylan, Villa Marta ; Shane Connaughton, Ojus ; Mary Dorcey, The Husband ; Roddy Doyle, from The Snapper; Anne Enright, Men and Angels ; Hugo Hamilton, from Surrogate City; Dermot Healy, The Death of Matti Bonner ; Aidan Higgins, from Balcony of Europe; Desmond Hogan, from A Curious Street; Jennifer Johnston, from The Christmas Tree; Neil Jordan, Last Rights ; Molly Kean, Patrick McCabe, from The Butcher Boy; Brian Moore, The Sight ; Edna O'Brien, What a Sky ; William Trevor, The Ballroom of Romance ; Val Mulkerns, Memory and Desire ; Robert McLiam Wilson, from Ripley Bogle, and many more.