Modern Irish-American Fiction: A ReaderReflected in these writings from twenty one Irish Americans are the themes common to all immigrant literature, but from the authors' own ethnic point of view. The struggle for success forms the underlying structure in the stories by O'Hara, Curran, and McCarthy; and the changing values the New World imposes on the individual are seen in Edwin O'Connor's "Grand Day for Mr. Garvey." Irish wit and black humor pepper all the stories, as represented by