O’Reilly’s latest stories rise above the rest

Fiction: Levitation, By Sean O’Reilly, The Stinging Fly, €18.40

Sean O’Reilly seems considerably under- appreciated in Ireland. While there has been no shortage of praise for the Derry born author’s novels Love and Sleep and The Swing of Things, the wider recognition afforded younger writers like Kevin Barry and Donal Ryan has unjustly escaped him. That really should change.

His latest collection of stories, Levitation, starts with the rushed and partly redacted first-person ...