Roddy Doyle – Short Story Index

An index of short stories written by Roddy Doyle and listed in alphabetical order.

57% Irish

               First Published: Metro Eireann (unknown date)

               Also: The Deportees (2007)

Ah Jaysis, Jeeves

               First Published: Jeeves Again (2025)

Animals

               First Published: Bullfighting (2011)

               Also: New Irish Short Stories (2011)

Ash

               First Published: The New Yorker 24 May 2010

               Also: Bullfighting (2011)

Bandstand, The 

               First Published: Metro Eireann 2008-9

               Also: San Francisco Panorama, 8 December 2009

Black Hoodie

               First Published: Metro Eireann (unknown date)

               Also: McSweeney’s 23 (2007); The Deportees (2007)

Blood

               First Published: Stories: All New Tales (2010)

               Also: Bullfighting (2011)

Box Sets

               First Published: New Yorker 14 April 2014

               Also: Life Without Children (2021)

Buggy, The

               First Published: New Yorker 24 June 2024

Bullfighting

               First Published: The New Yorker 28 April 2008

               Also: Bullfighting (2011)

Charger, The 

               First Published: Life Without Children (2021)

Child, The

               First Published: McSweeney’s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories (2004)

Curfew, The

               First Published: New Yorker 2 December 2019

               Also: Life Without Children (2021)

Deportees, The

               First Published: Metro Eireann (unknown date)

               Also: McSweeney’s 12 (2003); The Deportees (2007)

Disney

               First Published: Disney (2003)

Dog, The

               First Published: The New Yorker 5 November 2007

               Also: Bullfighting (2011)

Five Lamps, The

               First Published: Life Without Children (2021)

Funeral, The

               First Published: Life Without Children (2021)

Funerals

               First Published: Bullfighting (2011)

Gone

               First Published: Life Without Children (2021)

Guess Who’s Coming For The Dinner

               First Published: Metro Eireann (unknown date)

               Also: (as The Dinner) New Yorker 5 February 2001; The Deportees (2007)

Hens, The

               First Published: McSweeney’s 38 (2012)

Home To Harlem

               First Published: Metro Eireann (unknown date)

               Also: McSweeney’s 16 (2005); The Deportees (2007)

How To Be A Man

               First Published: The Book Of Men: Eighty Writers On How To Be A Man (2013)

I Understand

               First Published: Metro Eireann (unknown date)

               Also: McSweeney’s 15 (2004); The Deportees (2007)

Joke, The

               First Published: The New Yorker 22 November 2004

               Also: The Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories (2005); Bullfighting (2011)

Life Without Children

               First Published: The New Yorker 19 October 2020

               Also: Life Without Children (2021)

Lip, The 

               First Published: Big Issue #100 October 1994

Local

               First Published: McSweeney’s 35 (2010)

Los San Patricios

               First Published: Elsewhere (2012) (in the volume Somewhere)

Masks

               First Published: Life Without Children (2021)

Morning In A City, A

               First Published: Lines of Vision: Irish Writers On Art (2014) (inspired by the painting by Jack B Yeats)

New Boy

               First Published: Metro Eireann (unknown date)

               Also: McSweeney’s 18 (2005); The Best Of McSweeney’s (2013); The Deportees (2007)

Nurse

               First Published: Irish Times 24 October 2020

               Also: Life Without Children (2021)

Painting, The 

               First Published: McSweeney’s 29 (2008)

Photograph, The 

               First Published: The New Yorker 16 October 2006

               Also: Bullfighting (2011)

Plate, The 

               First Published: The Guardian 14 August 2010

               Also: Bullfighting (2011)

Pram, The 

               First Published: Metro Eireann (unknown date)

               Also: McSweeney’s 21 (2006); The Deportees (2007); The Granta Book Of The Irish Short Story (2010)

Recuperation

               First Published: New Yorker 15 December 2003

               Also: New Dubliners (2005);Bullfighting (2011)

Slave, The 

               First Published: Speaking With The Angel (2000) (longer version)

               Also: Bullfighting (2011)

Sleep

               First Published: The New Yorker 13 October 2008

               Also: Sunday Times Magazine 15 February 2009; Bullfighting (2011)

Star Dogs, The 

               First Published: Beyond The Stars (2014)

Teaching

               First Published: The New Yorker 2 April 2007

               Also: Bullfighting (2011)

Terrible Beauty Is Born

               Donegal Association Dublin Yearbook (1980)

Untitled Ghost Story

               First Published: A Ghostly Little Book (2026)

Worms

               First Published: Life Without Children (2021)