Short Stories by Frank O'Connor (a short selection)

• War (1926) [text]

• Guests of the Nation text]
• Attack [text]
• Jumbo’s Wife [text]
• Nightpiece With Figures [text]
• September Dawn [text]
• The Machine-Gun Corps in Action [text]
• Laughter [text]
• Jo [text]
• Alec [text]
• Soiree Chez un Belle Jeune Fille [text]
• The Patriarch [text]
• After Fourteen Years [text]
• The Late Henry Conran [text]
• The Sisters [text]
• The Procession of Life [text]

• Uprooted [text]
• The Bridal Night [text]
• The Long Road to Ummera text]
• Old Fellows [text]
• The Grand Vizier's Daughters [text]
• The House That Johnny Built [text]
• The New Teacher [text]
• Song Without Words [text]
• "The Star That Bids The Shepherd Fold" [text]
• The Miser [text]
• The Luceys [text]
• The Mad Lomasneys [text, html]

• The Genius text html
• The Study of History text html
• The Man of the World text  html
• The Duke's Children text html
• Daydreams text html
• Private Property text html
• A Bachelor's Story  text  html
• The Pariah [ html]
• Expectation of Life [ html]
• The Ugly Duckling [ html]
• Orphans [ html]
• A Salesman’s Romance [ html]
• Fish for Friday [ html]
• Pity [ html]
• The Paragon [ html]

• There Is A Lone House (1933) [text]
• The Miracle (1934) [text]
• The Man That Stopped (1934) [text]
• The English Soldier (1934) [text]
• Peasants (1935) [text]
• First Confession (1935) [text]
• Michael’s Wife (1935) [text]
• May Night (1935) [text, html]
• In the Train (1935) [text]
• The Majesty of the Law (1935) [text]
• Orpheus and his Lute (1936) [text]
• The Flowering Trees (1936) [text]
• Tears--Idle Tears (1936) [text]
• A Romantic (1936) [text]
• The Storyteller (1937) [text, html]
• Mac's Masterpiece (1938) [text]
• The Climber (1940) [text]
• Hughie (1941) [text]
• Last Post (1941) [text]
• Night of Stars [Judas] (1942) [text]
• A Story by Maupassant (1945) [text]
• A Thing of Nothing (1946) [text]
• The Lady of the Sagas (1946) [text]
• May Night (1946) [text]
• The Babes in the Wood (1947) [text]
• My Da (1947) [text]
• The Cornet Player Who Betrayed Ireland (1947) [text]
• The Holy Door (1947) [text]
• The Frying Pan (1935) [text]
• The Drunkard (1948) [text]
• The Conversion (1948) [text]
• The Adventuress (1948) [text]
• Darcy in the Land of Youth (1949) [text]
• The Idealist (1949) [text]
• The Man of the House (1961) [text]
• The Landlady (1949) [text]
• The Sentry (1950) [text]
• The Masculine Principle (1950) [text]
• The Pretender (1950) [text]
• This Mortal Coil (1950) [text]
• My Oedipus Complex (1950) [text]
• What Girls Are For (1951) [text], [html], [PDF]
• Baptismal (1951) [text]
• Eternal Triangle (1951) [ text]
• My First Protestant (1951) [ text]
• First Love (1952) [ text]
• Anchors (1952) [text]
• Masculine Protest (1952) [ text]
• A Sense Of Responsibility (1952) [text]
• Unapproved Route (1952) [ text]
• Freedom (1952) [text], [html
• Don Juans Temptation (1953) [text]
• Adventure (1953) [text]
• Vanity (1953) [text]
• The Little Mother (1953) [text]
• The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1954) [text]
• Lonely Rock (1951) [text]
• A Brief For Oedipus (1954) [text]
• The Old Faith (1954) [text]
• Lost Fatherlands (1954) [text]
• Father And Son (1954) [text]
• The Face of Evil (1954) [text]
• The Wreath (1955) [text]
• The Teacher's Mass (1955) [text]
• A Minority (1957) [text]
• The Impossible Marriage (1957) [text]
• Requiem (1957) [text]
• The Party (1957) [text]
• Public Opinion (1957) [text]
• An Out-and-out Free Gift (1957) [text]
• Music When Soft Voices Die (1958) [text]
• A Great Man (1958) [text]
• Androcles And The Army (1958) [text]
• Sue (1958) [text]
• Achilles Heel (1958) [text]
• Lady Brenda (1958) [text]
• The Mass Island (1959) [text]
• A Set of variations on a Borrowed Theme (1960) [text]
• The Weeping Children (1961) [text]
• The American Wife (1961) [text]
• A Life of Your Own (1965) [text]
• The Cheat (1965) [text]
• The Corkerys (1966) [text]
• The School for Wives (1966) [text]
• An Act of Charity (1967) [text]
• The Call (1971) [text]
• Ghosts (1972) [text]
• A Case Of Conscience (1970) [text]
• Uncle Pat (1981) [text]
• The Grip Of The Geraghtys (1981) [text]
• The Rebel (1952?/1994) [text]
• The Burden of Innocence (1952?/2007) [text]