23 MAY 1981, page 22

Irish Stories

Caroline Moorehead Children of Lir Desmond Hogan (Hamish Hamilton pp. 176, £6.95) Modern Irish Short Stories edited Ben Forkner (Michael Joseph pp. 557, £7.95) A Stone Throw......

Outsider

Anthony Storr Cockburn Sums Up Claud Cockburn (Quartet pp. 270, £8.50) Claud Cockburn was born at Peking 'on the day the Japanese blew,. up the Russian flagship Petropavolsk at......