
Caroline and Stephen mark the end of their relationship by burning their bed on the beach

A harassed artist’s installation critiquing the Irish property market causes a bit of a storm

A victim of domestic violence copes with a difficult Christmas in London

The An Post Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year for 2018

A young woman reflects on the price she pays for her relationship with a wealthy man

Longlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award, a tale of bullying and parental love

A tale of alienation and isolation by the former guitarist of ASIWYFA

From her debut collection, Broadwater, a story about the immigrant experience in London

A trip to Athens forces a woman to confront the truth about her relationship

A woman must move in with her sister and niece in this new work by the Exciting Times author

Sidra lost her family to a fire. Years later, she works as a Grace Jones impersonator

Past and present collide at a school reunion when a woman meets up with a lost love

Getting caught out on a trip away forces a man to think of home

'What Feminism Is': the 2017 Séan Ó Faoláin Competition winning piece by Louise Nealon

Room Little Darker author’s contribution to Doire Press’s Galway Stories: 2020 anthology

An old friend coming to stay spells trouble for a couple’s fragile relationship

A parable on parenthood by the author of the award-winning essay collection, Constellations

A sickness is spreading in the kingdom as a couple’s relationship comes under strain

Book Club: From ‘Room Little Darker’, a Dublin taxi driver handles a tricky fare

A short story from Counterparts (Stinging Fly) by the author of the Inishowen Mysteries

This story was first published in Still Worlds Turning, published by No Alibis Press

A graduate of UCD’s creative writing MA, Amy Gaffney co-edited The HCE Review

The story was first published in the author’s short story collection, Full of Grace

12 Stories of Christmas - Day 1: A short story by award-winning author of Show Them A Good Time

Three women connected by blood are divided by more than just a generation gap

12 stories of Christmas, Day 5: a story about a missing boy conjures up memories

12 Stories of Christmas: Day 2 – from the collection Aphrodite’s Kiss

‘It’s a love letter and a dying letter. He has surpassed himself’

A new short story by Kathleen MacMahon, author of This Is How it Ends and The Long, Hot Summer

‘The vet was an elderly man and had a stale, spent smell about him’

A young woman, bereft since the death of her twin, tries to forge a new, singular identity

Judge Kevin Barry: ‘It’s both poignant and very funny, emotional yet sardonic’

Judge Kevin Barry: ‘It could be described almost as a kind of erotic travelogue’

Kevin Barry: ‘the story of an odd encounter, it feels very close-in but it’s mysterious too’

Taken from her new collection ‘Shift’, a slowly developing portrait of a photographer

Out of Ireland summer fiction series: a mother dealing with drought and a missing son

The latest instalment in the Out of Ireland summer fiction series

The latest instalment in our summer fiction series Out of Ireland

Out of Ireland summer fiction: this is the third of eight short stories in our series

Out of Ireland summer fiction: The world turns inwards on a girl and her mother

Love, hatred, compassion and cruelty interplay in this story from ‘This Cruel Station’

An unusual relationship develops between a kidnapper and his victim

Mr Salary was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG short story award

12 Stories of Christmas - Day 12: A short story from Wild Quiet, Roisín O’Donnell’s debut collection

A holiday read - 12 Days of Stories, Day 11: A touching account of living with loss

A holiday read - 12 Days of Stories, Day 10: a long, hot summer

A holiday read - 12 Days of Stories, Day 9: How a widow deals with her grief

A holiday read - 12 Days of Stories, Day 8: Bad news from the front

A holiday read - 12 Days of Stories, Day 7: A daughter copes with bad news

A holiday read – 12 Days of Stories, Day 6: a mis-spent youth

A holiday read - 12 Days of Stories, Day 5: a famous poet suffers a breakdown on Inisbofin

A holiday read - 12 Days of Stories, Day 4: A young woman lives on the edge

A holiday read – 12 Days of Stories, Day 3: a prize-winning mouse’s tale

A holiday read - 12 Days of Stories, Day 2: A seasonal love story