FRANK O CONNOR

The definitive collection from an Irish literary icon, "one of the masters of the short story (Newsweek). In the words of W. B. Yeats, Frank OConnor "did for Ireland what Chekhov did for Russia. Anne Tyler, writing in the Chicago Sun-Times, described his tales as "encapsulated universes. This indispensable volume contains the best of his short fiction, from "Guests of the Nation (adapted into an Obie Awardwinning play) to "The Mad Lomasneys to "First Confession to "My Oedipus Complex. Dublin schoolteacher Ned Keating waves good-bye to a charming girl and to any thoughts of returning to his village home in the lyrical and melancholy "Uprooted. A boy on an important mission is waylaid by a green-eyed temptress and seeks forgiveness in his mothers loving arms in "The Man of the House, a tale that draws on OConnors own difficult childhood. A series of awkward encounters and humorous misunderstandings perfectly encapsulates the complicated legacy of Irish immigration in "Ghosts, the bittersweet account of an American familys pilgrimage to the land of their forefathers. In these and dozens of other stories, OConnor accomplishes the miraculous, laying bare entire lives and histories in the space of a few pages. As a writer, critic, and teacher, OConnor elevated the short story to astonishing new heights. This career-spanning anthology, epic in scope yet brimming with small moments and intimate details, is a true pleasure to read from first page to last.

Re-issued with an introduction by Neil Jordan, The Big Fellow is the 1937 biography of the famed Irish leader Michael Collins by acclaimed author Frank OConnor. It is an uncompromising but humane study of Collins, whose stature and genius OConnor recognised. A masterly, evocative portrait of one of Irelands most charismatic figures, The Big Fellow covers the period of Collins life from the Easter Rising in 1916 to his death in 1922 during the Irish Civil War.The author, having served with the Anti-Treaty IRA during the Irish Civil War, wrote The Big Fellow as a form of reparation over the guilt he felt with regards to taking up arms against his fellow Irishmen and Collins untimely death. Liam Neeson has said that he found the book of great assistance when preparing for the role of Collins in the 1996 film directed by Neil Jordan.

While Frank OConnor was known primarily as one of Irelands finest short-story writers, he was also an accomplished translator. In the long line of Irish writers given to translating poems in Irish into poems written in English a tradition stretching back at least as far as Jonathan Swift he stands out above all the rest.Between the mid-1920s and the mid-1960s, OConnor published 121 translations that give voice to the full range of this centuries-old tradition. Collected here in full for the first time, OConnors work shows an uncanny aptitude for carrying over into English verse many of the riches to be found in the originals the ancient voice of the Hag of Beare lamenting her decline into old age; the voices of the early monks describing the Irish landscape, Irish weather, their religious faith, and, in at least one instance, their cat; the voice of Hugh ORourkes wife torn between loyalty to her husband and a rising desire for her seducer. All these voices haunted OConnor throughout his career, whatever else he was doing. The collection includes the Irish-language sources for all 121 translations along with literal translations, enabling the reader to see what OConnor started from.OConnors translations sprang from a compulsive desire to breathe life into Irelands past, to look back to look forward, as he once put it; for him the Irish-language tradition was not for scholars and archives alone, but formed a living body of work vitally relevant to an Ireland that seemed puzzlingly indifferent to it.Thanks to OConnors profound love of his countrys language and its rich, literary subsoil a literature of which no Irishman need feel ashamed, he once said these voices from Irelands past can still be heard. Strikingly modern in tone, they conjoin flesh and spirit, the sacred and the secular, in a way that speaks to humankind.

W.B. Yeats credited Frank O'Connor with "doing for Ireland what Chekhov did for Russia". Childhood, sex, religion, respectability and gossip are all recurring themes in the short stories collected he

Frank OConnor, considerado por autores como William B. Yeats, Julian Barnes o Richard Ford como el Chéjov irlandés, analiza las realidades dispares que conforman aquel país, católico y timorato, y, al mismo tiempo, cuna de algunos de los mejores autores de la literatura universal. En Huespedes de la nacion y otros relatos, OConnor nos presenta soldados de bandos opuestos, niños que cargan con la culpa de la religion y la moral, familias y parejas que son el reflejo de una sociedad fracturada, y habla del perdon, la solidaridad, la venganza, la envidia, y de los lazos que unen y separan a los seres humanos. OConnor es el retratista de una Irlanda que todavia no ha desaparecido. Sus relatos, clasicos en el genero, siguen siendo absolutamente contemporaneos. La profundidad psicologica de sus personajes, la fuerza de sus dialogos y descripciones convierten la obra de OConnor en unica e inimitable. A pesar del paso del tiempo, Frank OConnor seguira siendo un maestro entre maestros.

The first two volumes of O'Connor's autobiography. AN ONLY CHILD is the entrancing story of an Irish childhood and a youthful involvement in the Irish rebellion which leads to internment. In MY FATHER'S SON O'Connor is released after the Civil war to begin a turbulent career as a writer, sharing his life and loves in Dublin with characters as formidable as Yeats and Lennox Robinson.

The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentful and jealous of losing his mother's undivided attention, and finds himself in a constant struggle to win back her affections.

Frank OConnor was one of the twentieth centurys greatest short story writers, and one of Irelands greatest authors. Lilliput Press are now delighted to continue our publishing of OConnors writing by bringing his seminal work on the art of the short story back into print. The Lonely Voice is the definitive work of Irish non-fiction on the art of writing short fiction, and has long been held up as one of the greatest works in global literature on the short form. We are delighted to bring The Lonely Voice back into print with a brand new introduction by Kevin Barry, internationally recognised as one of Irelands greatests short story writers, whose work - like OConnors before him - appears frequently in the New Yorker. Barry engages and parrys with OConnors writing, bringing about a meeting of great Irish short story writers from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and bringing this foundational piece of Irish writing to a new generation. The ideal companion to works such as George Saunders A Swim in a Pond in the Rain or John Yorkes Into the Woods: How Stories Work and Why we Tell Them.

An original digital e-short set in the Halo Universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series!

Novela romántica contemporánea donde dos desconocidos se ven obligados a convivir y descubren que sus vidas están más conectadas de lo que imaginaban.

A Backward Look (1967), un recorrido por la literatura irlandesa, de Frank O?Connor, uno de los mejores escritores irlandeses de relatos cortos, se publica por primera vez en castellano en la presente edicion de la Universidad de Almeria. Uno de los principales alicientes de esta panoramica general de la literatura irlandesa es que, por primera vez, se considera la literatura de Irlanda desde la perspectiva de los dos idiomas, pero partiendo de la base de que son elementos de una misma historia. De hecho, O?Connor dedica la primera mitad del libro a la literatura escrita en irlandes, mientras que en la segunda mitad se centra en la produccion literaria en lengua inglesa. La turbulenta historia de Irlanda, magistralmente explicada por el autor, hace que las multiples conexiones con la escritura de cada epoca queden expuestas como parte integral de un devenir social problematico y complejo. El vasto conocimiento de los entresijos en la evolucion de Irlanda como nacion por parte de O?Connor, hace que su viaje literario sea informativo y ameno, profundamente vinculado a los acontecimientos politicos y a los episodios historicos por los que paso el pueblo irlandes, como las distintas invasiones, las revueltas frente al poder colonial, la Hambruna, la emigracion o el Alzamiento de Pascua de 1916. No es un libro escrito desde el punto de vista academico, pues O?Connor tenia en mente siempre al publico lector en general. Sin embargo, Una mirada al pasado si puede servir como inicio para los estudiantes que quieran profundizar en la literatura de Irlanda.

Se han descrito los relatos de Frank O’Connor como mecanismos literariamente perfectos y fuente inagotable de inspiración para escritores, y a su autor como un «maestro entre maestros» y, sobre

Award-winning edition of this outstanding translation of Brian Merrimans eighteenth-century erotic masterpiece. Translated by Frank OConnorIllustrations by Brian Bourke.