Oxford Bookworms Library, 2008. — 103 pages.
Irish writers have long been famous for short stories and
there is a rich variety in this volume. On the windswept
west coast of Ireland a boy and his grandmother welcome
a stranger; in a Dublin bar two men discuss a woman. A
mother struggles to live with the pain of a child’s death;
a failed musician drowns his sorrows in whiskey in New
York. Then there is the fisherman who caught no fish;
a small boy who gets cross with his father; and a girl
with long black hair, cycling down the mountain road to
her first party, with hope in her heart. And the wish in
all their hearts might be, in the words of the poet W. B.
Yeats, ‘Tread softly because you tread on my dreams’.
Contents:
Note on the language.
Mr Sing My Heart’s Delight - Brian Friel.
Irish Revel - Edna O’Brien.
The Third Party - William Trevor.
Delivery - Lorcan Byrne.
My Oedipus Complex - Frank O’Connor.
Men and Women - Claire Keegan.
Lord McDonald - Eamonn Sweeney.
A Fishy Story - Somerville & Ross.
Glossary.
Activities.
About the Authors.
