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Shenanigans: An Anthology of Fresh Irish Fiction
 
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Shenanigans: An Anthology of Fresh Irish Fiction (Hardcover)

by Sarah Champion (Editor), Donal Scannell (Editor)
3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 325 pages
  • Publisher: Sceptre (21 Jan 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340712694
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340712696
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,188,821 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Although sometimes troubled by a self-conscious awareness of "the new Ireland", this is a lively, smart and savvy collection which knocks the socks off the formulaic Irish theatre that has been so touted recently. The best writers have travelled in cyberspace, America, Europe and in drug-ballooned minds. They're racy, pacy and hip. Mulkerns, Martin, Ambrose and McCann have clearly milked the diaspora and come home with confidence and wit. "The Pooka at Five Happiness" is profuse with racial and cultural difference and takes us on a rave with a Chinese- Irish woman and a black Irish man. There's lush lesbo-eroticism in "Surabaya Johnny" where an Asian woman takes more than scenic beauty from the west. "Digging a Hole" is excellent, bringing together a debt owed with a knee-capping tragedy. With the growth in Irish film, unsurprisingly many stories echo cinema, as in the Tarantino-style humour of "Red Isuzu" or the slow, sustained countdown of "N51". Many stories zing with the speed and rawness of Ireland's drug culture, the best being the achingly vulnerable "The Dublin School for Armed Robbery" and the simple poignancy of "As if There Were Trees". Here are writers to watch. And there's barely a Guinness or rainy day in sight. --Cherry Smyth

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A collection of darkly humorous tales from the wrong side of midnight, by 20 young Irish writers. It shuns Ireland's traditional literary topics to present Ireland after dark - from Dublin's gay clubs and stag parties to Christmas in Tipperary on LSD and seedy transactions in a Belfast hotel.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Taste of Mod Ireland, 6 Nov 2000
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This collection of 19 stories "from the wrong side of midnight" feature a young cadre of writers "from a generation with a different set of rules." As one might surmise from such jacket copy, the resulting are offbeat stories (many of which feature drugs, music, low level crime) which could be characterized as the Irish equivalent of the Scottish new wave (Welsh, Warner, et al), or as written riffs styled on the Coen Brothers/Tarantino combo of violence and dark humor. In fact, many of the stories are so similar in tone, style, and characterization that one could easily imagine they all came from the same laptop. One word of warning, the book leads off with two of the weakest stories, so don't be put off if you don't get into it right away.
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3.0 out of 5 stars The other side of Ireland, 19 Oct 1999
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I like short stories because they are usually easy to read and you can dip in and out of the book as and when you please. Some of these stories are hard going - you really have to concentrate. I like the fact that the stories represent a side of Ireland hidden behind the celtic tiger, heroin addicts (Canal Bank Wall), organized crime (Red Isuzu) . Given that the stories are written by, and obviously aimed at people in their twenties with access to the web, I am surprised that there are no other on-line reviews yet.

My favourite story was Mile High Club - revenge is sweet!

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