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This is a selection of thirty-eight stories covering many generations and many moods of Irish writing. It begins with an exquisite love story, an ancient saga retold by Lady Gregory;continues with George Moore and the birth of the modern short story at the turn of the century;includes such preeminent writers as James Joyce, Sean O’Faolain, Mary Laving and Liam O’Flaherty, whose work re-established the tradition of the short story;and concludes with the newer but no less practised exponents of the art-Elizabeth Bowen, William Trevor and Edna O’Brien.