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Literary brilliance is one of the most enduring and cherished of irish stereotypes, after allas hokey and inescapable a part of the national landscape as pubs and bad weatherbut toibin manages to keep the beer from turning green in. Yeats, samuel beckett and seamus heaney as well as jonathan swift. Lucy caldwell is among the authors selected for the new anthology, the penguin book of the contemporary british short story, a literary treasure trove of 30 great short stories published. Awarded the 1977 rooney prize for irish literature and 1980 john llewellyn rhys prize, his oeuvre comprises novels, plays, short stories and travel writing the cork examiner said. Right at the beginning of the 1980s three separate volumes were published almost simultaneously. Find all the books, read about the author, and more.