The road to the shore / Michael McLaverty The pram / Roddy Doyle An attack of hunger / Maeve Brennan Summer voices / John Banville Summer night / Elizabeth Bowen Music at Annahullion / Eugene McCabe Naming the names / Anne Devlin Shame / Keith Ridgway Memory and desire / Val Mulkerns The mad Lomasneys / Frank O'Connor Walking away / Philip Ó Ceallaigh Villa Marta / Clare Boylan Lilacs / Mary Lavin Meles vulgaris / Patrick Boyle The trout / Séan Ó Faoláin Night in Tunisia / Neil Jordan Sister Imelda / Edna O'Brien The key / John McGahern A priest in the family / Colm Tóibín The supremacy of grief / Hugo Hamilton The swing of things / Jennifer C. Cornell Train tracks / Aidan Mathews See the tree, how big it's grown / Kevin Barry Visit / Gerard Donovan Everything in this country must / Colum McCann Curfew / Sean O'Feilly Language, truth, and lockjaw / Bernard MacLaverty Midwife to the fairies / Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Men and women / Clare Keegan Mothers were all the same / Joseph O'Connor The dressmaker's child / William Trevor