It was a struggle for her, getting around to the back of the house this morning to gather up the...
There are no blue plaques in our village, no Heaney or Shackelton or Yeats to commemorate. A notable event is...
“One day, every major city in America will have a telephone.” – (Alexander G. Bell). Following the invention of the...
Conleth Ferris tossed a cigarette end to the yard. He coughed, then swallowed the phlegm, imagined the inside of his...
“Hello, this is the Galway Dating Service. Sarah speaking.” “What’s the craic? Looking for a bird for meself,” Tristan said...
Tristan told me to come to Dublin that weekend and bring my boots. He had gotten the allotment. He had...
This article was originally published in 2016. * When I was in Jr. High our school principal showed up drunk...
First published in 2019. * If you’re going to murder your love rival, all the better if he has a...
Despite being from a small Catholic country, the sheep of Ireland have garnered an international reputation for being particularly lustful....
Paddy McMenamin shares his thoughts on the year 2020 with an extract from his book Walking Through a Story of Life....
Boluisce I root my fingers, burying them back and down. A twist into black, acidic soil, deeper than anything man-made....
The dog had been missing since morning. It was getting late in the day, but I still wasn’t too keen...