Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Complicating the Irish Short Story (Elke D'hoker) -- References -- Part One. Transforming the Tale Tradition -- 'Let any one try to picture what it is': The Dynamics of the Irish Short Story and the Mediation of Famine Trauma, 1850-1865 (Marguérite Corporaal) -- 'Tedious and harrowing to the feelings':Narrative Condensation and Repression -- 'To know the Irish poor is to know Ireland': From Regional to Transnational Trauma -- Conclusion -- References -- From Tale to Short Story: The Motif of the Stolen Child in Le Fanu's Short Fiction (Gaïd Girard) -- Le Fanu and the Editorial Politics of the "Dublin University Magazine" -- The Weaving of Well-known Folklore Motifs into Complex Narrative Structures -- The 'Romantic Individuality' of The Child that Went with the Fairies' -- References -- Emily Lawless and History as Story (Heidi Hansson) -- References -- Part Two. Negotiating Modernism -- Bridging Tradition and Modernity: George Moore's Short Story Cycle "The Untilled Field" (Debbie Brouckmans) -- References -- Loneliness and the Submerged Population: Revisiting Frank O'Connor's "The Lonely Voice" by Way of Joyce's 'The Dead' (Michael O'Sullivan) -- References -- What Happened to Literary Modernism in the Irish-Language Short Story? (Brian Ó Conchubhair) -- P. H. Pearse (1879-1916) -- Pádraic Ó Conaire (1882-1928) -- Maireád Ní Ghráda (1896-1971) and Pádraic Óg Ó Conaire (1893-1971) -- Séamus Ó Grianna ('Máire') (1889-1969) -- Seosamh Mac Grianna ('Iolann Fionn') (1900-1990) -- Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984) -- Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906-1970) -- Conclusion -- References -- Frank O'Connor's 1920s Cultural Criticism and the Poetic Realist Short Story (Hilary Lennon) -- References -- Part Three. Finding a Post-Modernist Voice.

Oral Tradition with a Twist: Flann O'Brien's Short Fiction and Nation Building (Johanna Marquardt) -- Introduction -- Discursive Nation Building -- The Pub Setting and the Storytelling Frame -- 'The Martyr's Crown' -- 'A Bash in the Tunnel' -- Conclusion -- References -- Early Readings, Early Writings: Samuel Beckett's Student Library and His First Short Stories (Veronica Bala) -- Academia and the Company of Books -- Early Influences on Beckett's Short Fiction -- 'Assumption' -- The Belacqua Stories -- 'Sedendo et Quiescendo' -- 'Walking Out' -- The Smeraldina Stories -- Concluding Remarks: The Cohesion of Complexity -- References -- The Ghostly Fields of North Cork: Ireland in the Short Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (Eibhear Walshe) -- References -- Breaking New Ground and Making Patterns: Mary Lavin's First Short Story Collection "Tales from Bective Bridge" (Theresa Wray) -- References -- Part Four. Tracing New Trends -- The Female Writer in Short Stories by Irish Women (Heather Ingman) -- References -- Claire Keegan's New Rural Ireland: Torching the Thatched Cottage (Mary Fitzgerald-Hoyt) -- References -- A World of Strangers? Cosmopolitanism in the Contemporary Irish Short Story (Anne Fogarty ) -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Names.