The Art of the Glimpse

An anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.

There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a collection like this.

The Art of the Glimpse is a radical revision of the canon of the Irish story, uniting classic works with neglected writers and marginalised voices — women, LGBT writers, Traveller folk-tales, lost 19th-century voices and the first wave of 'new Irish' writers from elsewhere now making a life in Ireland. Sinéad Gleeson brings together stories ranging from the sublime to the downright bizarre, from classics to the new generation of writers, and from well known names to previously unpublished talent.

The collection paints a tremendous spectrum of experience: the story of a prank come good by Bram Stoker; Sally Rooney on the love languages of the new generation; Donal Ryan on the pains of ageing; Edna O'Brien on political entanglements; James Joyce on losing a loved one; and the internal monologue of a coma sufferer by Marian Keyes.

List of contributing authors:

Leland Bardwell, Colin Barrett, Margaret Barrington, Kevin Barry, Samuel Beckett, Brendan Behan, Claire-Louise Bennett, Maeve Binchy, Blindboy Boatclub, Elizabeth Bowen, Clare Boylan, Maeve Brennan, June Caldwell, Lucy Caldwell, Ethna Carberry, Jan Carson, Juanita Casey, Evelyn Conlon, Emma Cooke, Daniel Corkery, Mary Costello, Kathleen Coyle, Oein De Bharduin, Kit de Waal, Emma Donoghue, Mary Dorcey, Roddy Doyle, Christine Hickey Dwyer, George Egerton, Anne Enright, Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi, Wendy Erskine, Nicole Flattery, Lauren Foley, Patrick Freyne, Mia Gallagher, Sarah Maria Griffin, Hugo Hamilton, David Hayden, Dermot Healy, Norah Hoult, Jennifer Johnston, Neil Jordan, James Joyce, Claire Keegan, Colm Keegan, Elizabeth Cullinan, Rita Kelly, Louise Kennedy, Marian Keyes, Benedict Kiely, Mary Lavin, Sheridan Le Fanu, Dorothy Macardle, Bernard MacLaverty, Eimear McBride, Eugene McCabe, Colum McCann, Mike McCormack, John McGahern, Blánaid McKinney, Danielle McLaughlin, Bryan McMahon, Janet McNeill, Paul McVeigh, Una Mannion, Aidan Mathews, Frances Molloy, George Moore, Mary Morrissy, Peter Murphy, Rosa Mulholland, Val Mulkerns, Éilis Ní Dhuibhne, Edna O'Brien, Myles Na Gopaleen, Feeney Elaine, Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Frank O'Connor, Joseph O'Connor, Nuala O'Connor, Eimar O'Duffy, Sean O'Faolain, Liam O'Flaherty, Melatu Uche Okorie, David Park, Elske Rahill, Charlotte Riddell, Keith Ridgway, Sally Rooney, Donal Ryan, Ian Sansom, James Stephens, Bram Stoker, Deirdre Sullivan, Cathy Sweeney, Colm Tóibín, William Trevor, Una Troy, Katharine Tynan.