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PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

The Best of Frank O’Connor first published in Everyman’s Library, 2009

Copyright © 2009 by Harriet O’Donovan Sheehy

Introduction, Selection and Prefaces copyright © 2009 by Julian Barnes

Copyright information (US):

Collected Stories, copyright © 1981 by Harriet O’Donovan Sheehy, Executrix of the Estate of

Frank O’Connor (Alfred A. Knopf)

Stories from Collected Stories appear courtesy of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of

Random House, Inc.

The Common Chord, copyright © 1948 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (Alfred A. Knopf)

Crab Apple Jelly, copyright © 1944 by Michael Donovan and renewed 1972 by Harriet R. O’Donovan

(Alfred A. Knopf)

My Father’s Son, copyright © 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 by Harriet O’Donovan

(Alfred A. Knopf)

An Only Child, copyright © 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961 by Frank O’Connor

(Alfred A. Knopf)

Traveller’s Samples, copyright © 1951 by Frank O’Connor

(Alfred A. Knopf)

Domestic Relations, copyright © 1957 by Frank O’Connor

(Alfred A. Knopf)

More Stories by Frank O’Connor, copyright © 1954 by Frank O’Connor

(Alfred A. Knopf)

Kings, Lords, and Commons, copyright © 1959 by Frank O’Connor

(Alfred A. Knopf)

A Frank O’Connor Reader, copyright © 1964 by Frank O’Connor (Syracuse University Press)

The Little Monasteries, copyright © 1963, 1968 by Frank O’Connor

(Dolman Press)

Bibliography and Chronology Copyright © 2009 by Everyman’s Library

Typography by Peter B. Willberg

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. , New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Distributed by Random House, Inc. , New York. Published in the United Kingdom by Everyman’s Library, Northburgh House, 10 Northburgh Street, London EC1V0AT, and distributed by Random House (UK) Ltd.

eISBN: 978-0-307-80672-7

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CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Acknowledgment

Introduction

Select Bibliography

Chronology

About the Editor

1. WAR

Preface

Guests of the Nation

Attack

Jumbo’s Wife

September Dawn

Machine-Gun Corps in Action

Laughter

Soirée Chez une Belle Jeune Fille

From An Only Child – The Fight for Freedom

From The Big Fellow: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution

From My Father’s Son – A Case of Hypnotism

2. CHILDHOOD

Preface

My Oedipus Complex

From An Only Child – Mother

The Genius

First Confession

From Writing a Story – One Man’s Way

The Study of History

From An Only Child – A Love of Heights

The Man of the World

From An Only Child – The Bandsmen

The Cornet Player Who Betrayed Ireland

3. WRITERS

Preface

Introduction to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

From James Joyce: A Post-Mortem

From My Father’s Son – George Russell and W. B. Yeats

From Leinster, Munster and Connaught – Yeats

Centenary Address at the Graveside of W. B. Yeats

From Leinster, Munster and Connaught – The Tailor and Anstey

4. LONELY VOICES

Preface

The Procession of Life

The Majesty of the Law

After Fourteen Years

May Night

There is a Lone House

Uprooted

The Bridal Night

A Bachelor’s Story

Lonely Rock