Irish Fiction

Bilingual short stories

Novel.

Meditates on contemporary Ireland in three novellas that shadow one another. Touching on issues relating to language, religion, history and economics, Muir offers a poignant reflection on Ireland and its people as they buckle under the forces of globalisation.

A retelling of a ‘Fionn’ tale written in the 15th Century. New illustrated edition (2020)

This is the first appearance in English of six-year-old Lewy and his unique, impressionistic account of a tumultuous few months in the early 1920s. A vivid, warm voice brought to us from the Irish by Mícheál Ó hAodha in this translation of Eoghan Ó Tuairisc’s novella, An Lomnochtán (1977).

Where whispers carry as much weight as the secrets they cradle.

Written over the course of ten years, while the author has been living in America’s northeast and southeast, Mary O’Donoghue’s stories in The Hour After Happy Hour reach into the wounds of immigration, transit, and exile.

Edna O'Brien is the author of 19 books. She was the winner of the 1993 Writers Guild Prize for Fiction. Her biography of James Joyce was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in June 1999. Her recent fiction has been about Irish topics - religion, politics, property. In 2001 her documentary novel, In the Forest - about a brutal murder on the west coast - caused a furore in her native Ireland. It was the subject of a BBC Omnibus film.