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Benedict Kiely

The International Symposium on the Short Story, Part One

Autumn/ September 1968

Ireland

By Benedict Kiely

Frank O’Connor has gone the Long Road to Ummera as one of his people, an old woman, did in the moving story of that name when she made certain that […]

Three Irish Comedies

Spring 1964

A Bottle of Brown Sherry

By Benedict Kiely

Mr. Edward came home from hospital on the second day of the second summer holidays we spent at Delaps of Monellen. That was the year old John Considine the stonemason […]