The Best of Frank O'Connor by O'Connor, Frank -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgment Introduction Select Bibliography Chronology About the Editor 1. War

Preface Guests of the Nation Attack Jumbo’s Wife September Dawn Machine-Gun Corps in Action Laughter Soirée Chez Une Belle Jeune Fille From An Only Child – The Fight for Freedom From the Big Fellow: Michael Collins and The Irish Revolution From My Father’s Son – A Case of Hypnotism

2. Childhood

Preface My Oedipus Complex From An Only Child – Mother The Genius First Confession From Writing a Story – One Man’s Way The Study of History From An Only Child – A Love of Heights The Man of the World From An Only Child – The Bandsmen The Cornet Player Who Betrayed Ireland

3. Writers

Preface Introduction to a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man From James Joyce: A Post-Mortem From My Father’s Son – George Russell and W. B. Yeats From Leinster, Munster and Connaught – Sligo and Yeats Centenary Address at the Graveside of W. B. Yeats From Leinster, Munster and Connaught – The Tailor and Anstey

4. Lonely Voices

Preface The Procession of Life The Majesty of the Law After Fourteen Years May Night There is a Lone House Uprooted The Bridal Night A Bachelor’s Story Lonely Rock

5. Ireland

Preface A Learned Mistress Advice to Lovers I am Stretched on Your Grave A Word of Warning A Grey Eye Weeping From My Father’s Son – Yeats as Editor Kilcash Hope From Irish Miles – Father and Son From Leinster, Munster and Connaught From the Backward Look From Holiday Magazine

6. Better Quarrelling

Preface From My Father’s Son – First Fiction From the Saint and Mary Kate The Luceys Peasants Fish for Friday Old-Age Pensioners A Thing of Nothing News for the Church The Mad Lomasneys In the Train

7. Abroad

Preface The Babes in the Wood The Paragon Darcy in the Land of Youth The American Wife A Story by Maupassant The Conversion The Late Henry Conran Michael’s Wife From My Father’s Son – The American Liner

8. Last Things

Preface From Leinster, Munster and Connaught – Monastery Song Without Words ‘The Star That Bids the Shepherd Fold’ The Frying-Pan This Mortal Coil The Wreath From An Only Child – Grandmother The Long Road to Ummera From My Father’s Son – Tim Traynor The Mass Island