About the Author:
Patricia Craig was born and educated in Belfast before moving to London, where she now lives. She is a freelance critic and reviewer, and has edited several anthologies, including Oxford Books of Detective Stories, English Detective Stories, Modern Women's Stories, and Travel Stories.
From Library Journal:
Craig (ed., Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories, 1994) has produced a tome that skims the surface of Irish literary history. It has obligatory chapters like "The Thick and Bloody Fight" and "Bitter Memories," alongside the more interesting "Brown Rain Falling Heavily." Ireland is a well-documented land, and Craig's challenge was to find fresh voices from various times and places. To a degree she has succeeded. Perhaps more passages on bitter memories and violence seep out than those on gentle rains and cottages with peat fires, but this is leavened by the range of entries, over 200 from the earliest Celtic writings to the late 1990s by writers and poets ranging from Bowes to Yeats to Heaney. There is welcome, though brief, mention of peaceful Ulster and tenant farmers with decent landlords. Few passages are even a page in length, as Craig chose breadth over depth. This makes the book hard to use as a teaching tool but good for pleasure reading; if one entry is too misty or too bitter, flip the page or go to the next section. Recommended for public libraries.?Robert C. Moore, DuPont Merck Pharmaceuticals, Framingham, MA
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