My People (short story collection) My People (short story collection) My People is a collection of short stories by Caradoc Evans, first published in 1915 by Andrew Melrose and highly controversial at the time. It is subtitled "Stories of the Peasantry of West Wales". The work has been compared with Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio", James Joyce's "Dubliners" (which came out a year earlier although after the text of "My People" had been completed and submitted to - and rejected by - Stanley Unwin), and "The House with the Green Shutters" by George Douglas Brown. In its context of early 20th century Nonconformism, the book was
Irish short story Man". It was in 1905 that Joyce first attempted to get his famous collection of stories "Dubliners" published, and only after many attempts was it published in 1914. Liam O'Flaherty published his first collection, "Spring Sowing", in 1924, depicting the harsh life of his native Aran Islands. Daniel Corkery, "A Munster Twilight" (1916), was the first of a group of writers from County Cork. Seán Ó Faoláin, whose first collection "Midsummer Night Madness", 1932, was another member of this group, as was Frank O'Connor. His first collection was "Guests of the Nation", 1931. The work of this "Cork school" continued