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Errol Cornshaw believed that if he joined the army, his wife, Betina, would take him seriously. If he got into battle, he would show what...
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Ruth O'Leary
- Dec 20, 2023
- 5 min
The Best Christmas Present
Anna Fitzgerald stood outside The Shelbourne Hotel and wondered if he was already inside. The five-star hotel on Dublin’s St Stephen’s...
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Matthew Egan
- Dec 14, 2023
- 8 min
The way the wind blows
The man walked slowly down the road, his hands buried deep in his pockets, his collar pulled up around his neck trying to protect himself...
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Declan Doherty
- Jun 21, 2022
- 6 min
Alfie
For as long as Alfie could remember he checked his watch every 14 minutes to make sure it had not stopped. As he poured his chocolate...
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Darragh Gallagher
- Jun 19, 2022
- 1 min
Embarrassing Dad
Never meet your heroes (with your Dad) My Dad is a blues man. He's played with Irish blues legends such as Don Baker, Red Peters and...
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Eoin Lynam
- Jun 19, 2022
- 5 min
Father Christmas
Tommy woke up, yawning broadly and rubbing his eyes. Excitement coursed through his body, today was the big day! He sat up and looked...
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Pat Mullan
- Jun 9, 2022
- 3 min
Tranquillity
I always like the soothing feeling of getting the hair cut. The thrum of the electric clippers, KFM playing softly in the background,...
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Robert McDermott
- Jun 4, 2022
- 8 min
ON CORONADO BEACH
The sweeping arc of the bridge to Coronado Island is as breath-taking as it is banal. It rises through the San Diego docks like a...
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Sam Moorhead
- May 6, 2022
- 11 min
“Nitelink of the Living Dead”
It’s July, 2007. A Monday night in town, during that odd stretch of time when Westmoreland and D’Olier streets were the places to be for...
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Eamon O'Leary
- May 6, 2022
- 4 min
Bells A Ringing.
The wind was rattling the windows and because it was lashing and because I was a big boy of four and three-quarters, Ma said she’d leave...
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Robert McDermott
- Apr 20, 2022
- 9 min
THE OCCURRENCE AT DEVIL’S DEN
A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. The sky exhaled a sad greyness so that the building merged with the gloom and filled...
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Eoin Lynam
- Apr 14, 2022
- 11 min
The Travel Chronicles II
The bus rumbled into a staccato rhythm, easing itself into the early evening as it made its way through the lush, green countryside. The...
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Brian Finnegan
- Apr 5, 2022
- 6 min
The One That Got Away
He's going to meet his cousin at the diner. His cousin told him it's called Russell's now. Apparently they do good burgers. In his day...
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Ann Linehan
- Mar 30, 2022
- 6 min
Anna
Anna watched the neon pink jacket ebb and flow with the crashing tide 300 feet below the clifftop. The waves pounded the rocks and the...
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Maeve Keane
- Mar 27, 2022
- 9 min
Little Green
January, and the ground is hard. The bump is hard too, and full of your legs in my ribs. Your name eludes us and we look for it...
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S.F. Irwin
- Mar 27, 2022
- 9 min
Clean
To get windows really clean, you need a good, strong right rotation. You need to crumple the paper, two sheets thick, to just the right...
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Desirée Naranjo
- Mar 27, 2022
- 3 min
MAMÁ
From my upstairs bedroom, I hear the sound of glass breaking on the floor. It wakes me up. It’s 3 am. Slowly, I open my bedroom door and...
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Mary Lennon
- Mar 27, 2022
- 10 min
If the Hat Fits
Bought a hat yesterday, black felt with a brim - impulse buying - they call it in that Know Yourself , psychology book I also bought- on...
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Mark McCallum
- Mar 2, 2022
- 5 min
A Touch of The Called.
By day I used to walk along these same gravely paths, the solitary rustling sound of the stones was a harmony to my ears. Now I travel...
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Ciara Stagg
- Mar 1, 2022
- 4 min
Say When
It felt like love. It’s always easy to look back on things and say it wasn’t love. Like water stains that cloud the shine of a glass, it...
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