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The reader can play guessing games and try to name the country or language of origin based purely on the prose, although the cliches rarely click into place. That said, the two Irish stories in this book, by Gabriel Rosenstock and Desmond Hogan, share a clipped, brusque pace and a certain measured brutality.
Daniel Rooney, whose correct middle initial, by the way, is M, confirmed that his family annually awards a prize of $2,000 to an Irish writer. The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, he explained, has been given for the last seven years to a native of Ireland who must be under 40 years old and writing in either English or Irish.
The Anchor Book of New Irish Writing is a great buffet of tasty fiction. It covers the past 30 years in short stories and includes work by John Banville, Aidan Mathews, Clare Boylan, Desmond Hogan and Neil Jordan, among others.[dead link]
