A collection of 67 short stories by the noted twentieth century Irish author.

A collection of stories with themes of "manhood, love, faith, and the infinite web of relationships to family, to church, and to country by which men and women are sustained or entrapped."

Based on lectures delivered at Trinity College, Dublin, which covered Irish poetry and prose for the last nine centuries, with excerpts translated from the original Gaelic.

A collection of essays by twenty short-story writers and critics, ranging from Poe to Gordimer, offers theoretical analyses of and approaches to the short story, considered as a distinct and significant genre.