A special edition of the 100 best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations, winner of the Irish Book Award Non Fiction Book of the Year 2019.
Sinéad Gleeson's debut essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life (Picador) won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at 2019 Irish Book Awards and in 2020 was shortlisted for the Dalkey Literary Award, the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Michel Déon Prize. Her short stories have featured in several anthologies including Being Various: New Irish Short Stories (Faber, 2019) and Repeal the 8th. She has edited the award-winning anthologies The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers and The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland, and is currently working on a novel.
Sinéad Gleeson's latest anthology is a call for the realignment of
the Irish literary canon as she presents her vision of new and
established voices sitting comfortably side by side... The sheer
variety of the styles and genres included in this anthology ensure
it caters to many different tastes and readers will return to many
of the stories again and again'
*RTÉ*
A beautiful piece of publishing... Over 700 pages of Irish short
stories... Expands the canon of the Irish short story, it's full of
marginalised and forgotten voices, women, LGBT writers, forgotten
19th-century voices'
*Clare Byrne*
Gleeson radically reimagines the canon of the Irish short story,
from the classic and familiar to the urgent and contemporary... An
ambitious, joyous representation of the beloved traditional
form'
*Dazed*
Sometimes described as a 'glimpse of truth', short stories can be
all the more forceful, inventive and meticulously crafted for their
brevity, as Sinéad Gleeson's excellent anthology demonstrates
*Extra.ie*
Whilst the collection sparkles with new stars of current Irish
writing right alongside those loved for decades, it is the breadth
of talent on display here which is truly amazing
*Leitrim Observer*
Gleeson has almost single-handedly revolutionised the literary
anthology in Ireland... This is a masterpiece of selection and
execution... This one works like a dream to create a wonderful,
maybe even definitive book of stories from Ireland'
*New European*
From famous names to forgotten voices, a gloriously varied
collection revitalises the Irish Canon... There's poison and
antidote, with abject hopelessness tempered by hope'
*Guardian*
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