The Vintage Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction Book

	Introduction
	For to End Yet Again	3
	The Man-Keeper	9
	The Talking Trees	14
	from The Killeen	29
	from A Curious Street	36
	from Black List, Section H	44
	from The Christmas Tree	57
	High Ground	67
	Postcards	79
	A Woman's Hair	83
	from Balcony of Europe	91
	Happiness	95
	Blood and Water	113
	Ojus	126
	from The Butcher Boy	142
	Villa Marta	152
	from Burning Your Own	161
	Cancer	171
	The Ballroom of Romance	187
	from Good Behaviour	209
	Last Rites	216
	Between Two Shores	226
	Heaven	240
	Memory and Desire	250
	The Husband	265
	What a Sky	282
	from The Snapper	295
	Oranges from Spain	303
	If Angels had Wings	319
	from Proxopera	325
	Orange Horses	334
	from The Journey Home	348
	from The Heather Blazing	357
	Mothers Were All the Same	373
	The Sky's Gone Out	387
	from Ripley Bogle	398
	from Surrogate City	405
	A Rock-'n'-Roll Death	418
	from Remembering Light and Stone	425
	from The Engine of Owl-Light	432
	The Sight	442
	Incident on the El Camino Real	463
	Men and Angels	481
	Counterpoints	490
	The Hairdresser	496
	from Mefisto	504
	The Death of Matti Bonner	511
	Absent Children	520
	Divided Attention	524
	Through the Field	534
	Biographical Notes	547
	Acknowledgements	557