Irish Short Fiction: 1880-1945

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    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationA Companion to the British and Irish Short Story
    PublisherJohn Wiley and Sons
    Pages51-64
    Number of pages14
    ISBN (Print)9781405145374
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2 Mar 2009

    Keywords

    • Divided nature of Irish society in this period
    • Frank O'Connor - master of Irish short story
    • Irish myth and folklore - gathered in Ireland since the mid-nineteenth century
    • Irish Short Fiction: 1880-1945 - series of unprecedented changes in Irish society and literature
    • Irish stories set in usually nameless landscape
    • Novelist Rosa Mulholland "The Hungry Death" (1890) - using gothic techniques to describe real horrors of Irish life
    • Ó Conaire's story, a theme in Irish fiction - clash between appearance and reality
    • Short fiction tradition writers in Ireland - William Carleton, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and Anthony Trollope
    • Writers presenting Irish subjects for the English readership - in nineteenth century facing a number of difficulties

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