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UCD Library Collection Spotlight: The Irish Short Story
A monthly online and print display highlighting our collections
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RTE news story on Colin Barrett winning the 2014 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award for his short story collection Young Skins.
Focus on Colin Barrett, author of Young Skins
Colin Barrett's debut collection of short stories,Young Skins, has already won many awards in 2014. These include the Guardian First Book Award, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.
Barrett was born in Mayo in 1982.
Short Story Collections
UCD library holds an extensive range of short story collections and anthologies by Irish writers. Check OneSearch for more. Some of the books currently on our Spotlight display are below:
The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story by Anne Enright (Editor)
Call Number: 823.08 IR ENRISBN: 9781847080974Publication Date: 2011-03-01My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories by Frank O'Connor
Call Number: 823 IR OCOISBN: 9780141187877Publication Date: 2005William Trevor - Collected Stories by William Trevor
Call Number: 823 IR TREISBN: 9780140232455Publication Date: 1993-12-01Dark Lies the Island by Kevin Barry
Call Number: 823 IR BARISBN: 9781555976880Publication Date: 2015-04-07Selected Stories of Sean O'Faolain by Seán Ó'Faoláin
Call Number: 823 IR O'FAISBN: 9780316632850Publication Date: 1978-01-01Town and Country: New Irish Short Stories by Kevin Barry, ed.
Call Number: 823.08 IR BARISBN: 9780571297047Publication Date: 2013
Irish Times Book Club Podcast
Our Spotlight Display on Irish Short Stories
See our Spotlight Display on Level 1 of the James Joyce Library.
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