Antarctica

by Claire Keegan

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  © Claire Keegan, 1999

  ‘The Ginger Rogers Sermon’ was first published in Phoenix Irish Short Stories in August 1997

  ‘The Singing Cashier’ first appeared in the Paris Review, Spring 1998, and was broadcast on RTE

  ‘Storms’ and ‘Quare Name for a Boy’ were also broadcast on RTE

  ‘Burns’ was first published in Force 10 and broadcast on RTE

  ‘Where the Water’s Deepest’ was first published in the Sunday Tribune and broadcast on RTE in 1996

  ‘Passport Soup’ was first published by the Mail on Sunday and was broadcast by the BBC World Service

  The rights of Claire Keegan to be identified as author of this work have been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

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  ISBN 978–0–571–31379–2