Last days in August The tarmac heats the rubber soles of my boots. It’s hotter here than I had expected...
TOBY’S SOLILOQUY To think what stands against me still is not the harm of falling off a ladder at two-storey...
The Irish are renowned storytellers. From Nobel prize winning literature to pub talk we are saturated in stories. We listen...
Ryan Dennis is the author of The Beasts They Turned Away, a novel set on an Irish dairy farm. He shares...
It is getting close to ten years that The Milk House feature has appeared in magazines across the globe. The...
Crossing Places At the crossing places when the river is still and ghosts untangle themselves from the trees you can...
When planted, potatoes are laid out in a particular pattern, like the 5 side of a die. Four corners of...
Steven. Steven, is loose. Loose, so I had to go looking for him. I’d been meaning to fix the gate....
The following is an excerpt from Irish writer Maura McElhone’s book Falling for a Farmer (2018), published by Mercier Press. * It...
Finding a role in my family’s small dairy operation is quite literally the oldest goal I can recall from my...
We’d passed Neary’s millions of times. It was about halfway between me and Tobin’s place outside our village. We’d often...
THAT GERTRUDE COW for Annie the Herdswoman It was below freezing in the milking parlor. The freshly hosed down cement...