Dublin Tales Format: Paperback

A selection of short stories centred on Dublin that portray the wealth and vibrancy of Irish literature and the culture of the city.

Helen Constantine

Eve Patten is Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute and Professor of English at Trinity College, Dublin, where she is a Fellow. A scholar in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and cultural history, she worked for the British Council before joining Trinity as a lecturer in 1996. She specializes in the modern Irish and British novel and was a regular reviewer of new Irish fiction for the Irish Times and other publications for several years.


Paul Delaney is Associate Professor in the School of English, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. He is a scholar of twentieth-century and contemporary Irish writing, with particular focus in post-independence Irish literary culture and short fiction. He has written widely on Irish literature in peer-reviewed journals and publications. He joined Trinity as a lecturer in 2001, having completed his PhD at the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Research at the University of Kent (Canterbury) where he was a Chevening Scholar.