Starting
Anna is in her late 30's, divorced, with grown children, and works as a costumer for a theatre in England Her friend Ken, a director, brings Bobby to …
View ArticleGreen Georgette
As a girl of 12, the narrator and her mother are invited to the Jamesons', a rich family with a grand house in the town of Tubbercurry, Ireland. The …
View ArticleFar Away In Australia
In Ireland, the writer spent each childhood summer with her aunt, her mother's parents and two cousins, not far from her own home. She recalls the …
View ArticleGhosts
Writer recalls three women from her childhood in Ireland: Mabel, a young woman who went periodically mad; Nancy, her stylish godmother; and Mrs. Keogh, a …
View ArticleViolets
A woman is preparing to receive a caller, a married man she met a month earlier at a Christmas party. He is rich, successful, very English. He is coming to…
View ArticleThe Call
A woman is having an affair with a married man. When the phone rings, she hopes it is he, but by the time she answers, he has hung up. She considers …
View ArticleThe Plan
A woman who will be attending a black tie party that evening envisions what the party will be like. Her lover will be there with his wife, whom she had …
View ArticleThe Return
A woman has been vacationing alone on an island somewhere in the Mediterranean. She is flying back home. She succeeded in not thinking about her lover, a …
View ArticleThe Conner Girls
The narrator is a young girl living in a town in Ireland at the beginning of the story; at the end, she is married, with one small child. In the town are …
View ArticleSister Imelda
When the narrator was a student at a convent school, she fell in love with a young nun named Sister Imelda. She was Sister Imelda's petNSister Imelda …
View ArticleSavages
Mabel McCann's family and the family of the narrator were very close. Mabel had been away in Australia for ten years when she wrote that she was on her…
View ArticleThe Bachelor
Narrator remembers an old bachelor who lived in her home town in Ireland. His name was Jack and when narrator was a little girl he was in love with her …
View ArticleEpitaph
When the English narrator first met her married lover, she thought he was too good to be true. She was incredulous when she found out that he, too, was …
View ArticleA Little Holiday
Narrator describes a visit to her uncle's house when she was nearly 9. For years she had been begging to go there, to spend a holiday with him & his …
View ArticleAnother Time
In London Nelly needs desperately to get away and decides to visit an Irish seaside hotel she yearned to go to as a child hoping it will restore her to her…
View ArticleThe Widow
Bridget, a woman who has always more or less kept to herself, is the subject of much cruel gossip among her Irish neighbors. Years earlier her husband …
View ArticleA Day Out
Meg & her mother & father are going on an outing to visit her brother at the monastery & to bring home her older sister Nancy from the convent school …
View ArticleWhat A Sky
The narrator comes from London to visit her elderly father who is in a nursing home in Ireland. He admonishes her for being late & then proceeds to tell …
View ArticleLantern Slides
A birthday party in Dublin, Ireland for Betty, the jilted wife of a prominent man from the horse racing world, is full of celebrities and important people …
View ArticleNo Place
The protagonist is having an affair with a man named Duncan, whose two passions are the desert and the theatre. On Saturday nights she has wild parties at …
View ArticleThe Cut
Nell's mother and father were opposed to her marriage to Walter, and to prevent it kept her locked in their house in the Irish countryside. Nell …
View ArticleWilderness
Two policemen arrive one night at Nell's home, in London, to tell her that her son Paddy has been in an accident. A pleasure boat had collided with a …
View ArticleSin
They were in. In. Mother, father, and daughter. She waited to hear them come in, stayed awake. In those wide-awake vigils she prayed or tried to. When the …
View ArticleJoyce’s Odyssey
A CRITIC AT LARGE about James Joyce, and about the writing of “Ulysses”... Joyce’s journey as a writer was one of martyrdom: the odium meted out to …
View ArticleYeats In Love
BOOKS lead for the biography “Yeats’s Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats” (HarperCollins; $32) by Brenda Maddox... Writer tells the …
View ArticleForbidden
Short story about the writer's relationship with her late mother in Ireland, describing letters her mother sent her over the years, after a distancing …
View ArticleA BOY IN THE FOREST
Short story set in Ireland about a mentally disturbed boy who is sent to a reform school after his mother dies and he attempts to kill his father… He is …
View ArticleThe Danger Zone
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View Article“Old Wounds”
Fiction by Edna O’Brien: “Our families had a falling out. … Yet we were still intimately bound up with each other.”
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