Stories in journals and newspapers

Short Stories in English

‘Green Fuse’, Irish Press, New Irish Writing, February 1974 (published under the pseudonym Elizabeth Dean). Reprinted in The Irish Eros, ed David Marcus, 1996.

‘The Duck-billed Platypus’, Irish Press, New Irish Writing, 1975 (pseud. Elizabeth Dean).

‘A Fairer House’, Irish Press, New Irish Writing, 1976 (pseud. Elizabeth Dean).

‘Prepare a  Face’, Irish Press, New Irish Writing, 1978 (pseud. Elizabeth Dean).

‘The Postmen’s Strike’, Irish Press, New Irish Writing, 1979 (pseud. Elizabeth Dean).

‘Looking’, Sunday Independent, 1981

.‘The Catechism Examination’ Irish Press, New Irish Writing, 1982; Paris Transcontinental, 1991.

‘Blood and Water’, Irish Press, New Irish Writing, 1983. Reprinted in The Blackstaff Book of Short Stories, 1988 

‘A Visit to Newgrange’, Irish Times, 1985.

‘Fulfilment’, Panurge Magazine, 1986. (reprinted in Best Short Stories 1986. ed Giles Gordon, London, Heineman, 1986)

‘Eating Women Is Not Recommended’, Irish Times, 1989.

‘The Garden of Eden’, Irish Times, 1990.

‘The Makers’, in  The Phoenix Book of Irish Short Stories. Ed. David Marcus.     London: Phoenix, 1998;

‘The Master Key’, in Ladies Night at Finbar's Hotel. Ed. Dermot Bolger. Dublin:              New Island Books/London, Picador, 1999.

‘The Moon Shines Clear, the Horseman’s  Near’ in  Phoenix Book of Irish Short Stories. Ed. David Marcus. London, 2002 ;

‘It is a Miracle,’ in Arrows in Flight: Irish short stories. Ed. Caroline Walsh,       Dublin/New York: Townhouse, 2002.

‘Evelina’, first broadcast BBC Radio 4, 2004

.‘A  Literary Lunch’, in  Faber Book of Irish Short Stories 2006. ed David Marcus, London, Faber, 2006.

 ‘The Strange Case of the Scream in the Night’, first broadcast BBC Radio 4 2008.

‘Right of Passage’, Amnesty Series, Irish Times, July 2008. 

Stories from collections also  anthologized in:

Territories of the Voice. Ed Louise De Salvo. London: Virago,       1990.

Cosmopolis.  Ed. Inez Rieder. San Francisco: Kleis Press, 1990

State of the Art.  Ed. David Marcus. London: Sceptre, 1992

Virgins and Hyacinths.  Ed Caroline Walsh. Dublin: Attic, 1993.

The Picador Book of Irish Fiction.  Ed. Dermot Bolger. London: Picador, 1993.

Best Short Stories 1986.  Ed. Giles Gordon, London, Heinemann, 1986.

Blackstaff Book of Short Stories.  Belfast: Blackstaff, 1988.

Second Blackstaff Book of Short Stories. Belfast: Blackstaff, 1991.

Wildish Things.  Ed. Ailbhe Smyth, Dublin: Attic, 1989.

Ireland's Women; Writings Past and Present.  Ed, Katie Donovan, Dublin, Gill and Macmillan, 1994.

Irish Comic Writing. Ed Ferdia MacCana.  London: Michael       Joseph, 1995.

Frauen in Irland.  Munich: DTV, 1990.Antologia della nuova Letteratura Irlandaise. Perugia, 1994.

 Move Over Waxblinder. Ed. John Murray. Brampton, England: Panurge, 1994.

The Irish Eros. Ed. David Marcus. Dublin: Gill, 1996.

A Part of Ourselves. Ed. Siobhan Parkinson. Dublin: Farmar,     1997.

Oxford Book of Ireland. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998.

Kri in Voda. Antologija sodobnih irskih kratkih zgodb.  Ed. Tina Kahkota. Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1998.