32 Short Masterpieces of modern Irish fiction, one by each of 32 writers, are presented in this collection. The writers, all of whom heve been active within the past century, are a distinguished group ranging from scuh older masters as George Moore, Lord Dunsany, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, and William Butler Yeats to such contemporaries as Paul Vincent Carroll, Mary Lavin, Sean O’Faolain and Frank O’Connor. The stories themselves were chosen to illustrate a wide variety of talents, to introduce many newcomers and to provide the reader with lasting pleasure.