A pair of sharp perspectives on modern Irish life

Donal Ryan
John Boyne. Picture: Richard Gilligan

Short stories

A Slanting of the Sun

By Donal Ryan

Doubleday Ireland, €17.50

Beneath the Earth

By John Boyne

Doubleday, €17.50

Reviewed by Joanne Hayden

Though they’re Irish writers of a similar age, John Boyne and Donal Ryan have mapped out different fictional territories. Boyne is best known for historical and children’s ...