Benedict Kiely

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1976
  • Latest Book:
    December 2019
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Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • A Ball of Malt and Madame Butterfly

  • And As I Rode Out By Granard Moat

  • The Cards of the Gambler

  • And as I Rode by Granard's Moat

    Rescued from memory by Ireland's leading short-story writer and raconteur, this anthology weaves a rich tapestry of songs, ballads and poetry reaching across three centuries and drawn from the lanes and highways of thirty-two counties. Contents i...

  • Dogs Enjoy the Morning

    Dogs Enjoy the Morning is an uproarious novel full of weird and wonderful characters set in Cosmona, a fictitious village somewhere in Ireland ... The doctor and his loving wife are secretly watched by Gabriel Rock, a one-eyed local Peeping Tom. A sh...

  • The Trout in the Turnhole

  • There Was an Ancient House

    Within the walls of the ancient house, thirty novices try hard to conform to the religious life. Frawley, boisterous and unconventional; Barragry, the cynical journalist who has left behind a full life and a good woman; MacKenna, sensitive and litera...

  • A Raid into Dark Corners and Other Essays

    Essays from one of the most popular literary critics and writers in Ireland for over fifty years.



    In these selected essays, published to mark his eightieth birthday, Benedict Kiely writes principally about the writers of his native...

  • The Collected Stories of Benedict Kiely

    Among the best writers this company has published is Ireland's Benedict Kiely. His first book to be released in this country, The State of Ireland, received a front page New York Times Book Review notice in which Guy Davenport wrote, "The first meani...



  • Nothing Happens in Carmincross

    At the height of the Troubles, Mervyn returns from America to his native Ulster, only to find the specter of bombs and political murder hanging over his idyllic Carmincross. This is the timely reissue of Benedict Kiely's novel about a land riven b...

  • The Penguin Book Of Irish Short Stories

    'Do the Irish have, in relation to anybody else, any special capacity for the short story?' In this collection of thirty-eight short stories covering many generations and moods of Irish writing, this question is emphatically answered in the affirmati...

  • Selected Stories

    Selected Stories gathers together some of the best examples of Benedict Kiely's work - a true and gifted man of letters. Edited by Ben Forkner, founder of The Journal of the Short Story. From 'Soldier, Red Soldier' and 'A Ball of Malt and Madame Butt...

  • Benedict Kiely

    Selected Storiesgathers together some of the best examples of Benedict Kiely's work - a true and gifted man of letters. Edited by Ben Forkner, founder ofThe Journal of the Short Story. From'Soldier, Red Soldier' and 'A Ball of Malt an...

  • Proxopera

  • Down Then By Derry

  • The Best of Benedict Kiely

    The Best of Benedict Kiely is a treasure trove of his best and most acclaimed stories, published to mark the centenary of the birth of this great twentieth-century Irish writer. Many of these stories were originally published in The New Yorker before...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Benedict Kiely has published 16 books.

Benedict Kiely does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Best of Benedict Kiely, was published in December 2019.

The first book by Benedict Kiely, A Ball of Malt and Madame Butterfly, was published in September 1976.

No. Benedict Kiely does not write books in series.
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