Category: Writing
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Premier Writing: Gerard James Hough
Premier Writing showcases poetry, essays and short fiction by new and emerging Irish writers. This week’s featured poet is Gerard James Hough from Tipperary. Poetry poem #19: ‘leaves…’ my mother set me just onechore, one,one only,one,no more. every october,(she would wait youunderstand),for a day when the windblew hard against the hands,& she’d set me to tending,leaves. …
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Premier Writing: Brenda Donoghue
Premier Writing showcases poetry, essays and short fiction by new and emerging Irish writers. This week’s short story is by Brenda Donoghue from Kerry. Short story Her Own Code Darius stands on deck his ass cocked North by Northwest, straight into the wind. He is bending protectively over cupped hands nursing a cigarette to life.…
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Premier Writing: Michael P. O’Shaughnessy
Premier Writing showcases poetry, essays and short fiction by new and emerging Irish writers. Today’s featured poet is Michael P. O’Shaughnessy from Thurles. Poetry That Terrible Day Putting usual things back on the shelf…Shaking hand, tears run down…She’s done this a thousand times…Today is so different but just a glass. Cars outside are still passing…
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Premier Writing: Karen Corcoran
Premier Writing showcases poetry, essays and short fiction by new and emerging Irish writers. This week’s short story is by Karen Corcoran from Carlow. Short story One Last Job HE WATCHED FROM the shadows as she stepped out into the frosty darkness, softly closing the front door behind her so as not to wake anyone…
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Premier Writing: Margaret Galvin
Premier Writing showcases poetry, essays and short fiction by new and emerging Irish writers. This week’s featured poet is Margaret Galvin from Wexford. Poetry Neighbours (i.m. Jimmy and Mary Lonergan, Cahir) Every September: boxes of apples on the doorstep,the litany of varieties, exotic to us,Cox’s Pippin, Bramley, Worcester Pearmain,a foamy simmer and sweet froth in…
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Premier Writing: Aintherese Madden
Premier Writing showcases poetry, essays and short fiction by new and emerging Irish writers. This week’s featured poet is Aintherese Madden from Tipperary. Poetry: River Mother The hustle and bustle of that river as it rushed past me.I sit, but my stare never graspspain, joy or eager delight.I scarcely can tell its source from its…
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Premier Writing: Celia Donoghue
Premier Writing showcases poetry, essays and short fiction by new and emerging Irish writers. This week’s short story is by Celia Donoghue from Clare. Short Story Returnee I should have asked Dad before his memory went. ‘Asylum seekers’ wasn’t really a phrase then. Now it worms around my head. Definitely Africa, but which country? Famine…
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Premier Writing: Fiona O’Shaughnessy
Premier Writing showcases poetry, essays and short fiction by new and emerging Irish writers. This week’s featured poet is Fiona O’Shaughnessy from Thurles. Poetry Remembering Remembering back to moments in time.When all felt so peaceful, all was just fine.Wonderful memories of a life gone by.Childhood, teens, adult now, how the years fly. Remembering times, long…
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Premier Writing: Madge O’Callaghan
Premier Writing showcases poetry, essays and short fiction by new and emerging Irish writers. This week’s short story is by Madge O’Callaghan from Clare. Short Story Angela “Was it wonderful?” she whispered. “It was,” I smiled. “Did you love it?” “I loved it,” I laughed. “I moved my mouth at all the right places.” “Brilliant,”…
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Premier Writing: Jessica Coyle
Premier Writing showcases poetry, essays, and short fiction by new and emerging Irish writers. This week’s featured poet is Jessica Coyle from Dundalk. Poetry Closed Door Behind that closed door there is no benevolenceNo welcoming embrace,nor a yearning for what should be. Cold-hearted disdain sits thereBut my spirit is blithe,and will cast those shadows of…
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Premier Writing: Steve Wade
Premier Writing showcases poetry, essays, and short fiction by new and emerging Irish writers. This week’s short story is by Steve Wade from Dublin. Short Story Don’t Let Go THE HEAVY RAIN pooled in places on the roof of their tent, then seeped through the nylon. To give her shelter, Bennett mantled Yusra’s prostrate body…
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Premier Writing: Mary Howlett
Premier Writing showcases poetry, essays, and short fiction by new and emerging Irish writers. This week’s featured poet is Mary Howlett from Waterford. Poetry The Last Goodbye I remember him standing at the green gateinsisting that I fill my car boot with onionsand cabbages, a few bags of turf cut in the bog the previous…
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Premier Writing: Denis Maher
Premier Writing showcases poetry, essays, and short fiction by new and emerging Irish writers. This week we feature two poems by Denis Maher from Thurles. Poetry Hands of Time Our implements of flesh and boneUnambiguous in their daily tasksThese tools that help us liveThat help give birthSave a life or take a lifeThey build for…
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Premier Writing: Ethel Reynolds
Premier Writing aims to showcase the best poetry and short fiction by new and emerging Irish writers. This week’s short story is by Ethel Reynolds from Tipperary. Short Story Building Memories Susan’s home sat in the gentle undulations of the South Tipperary countryside, with an untidy, almost-wild garden and an old wooden henhouse tucked into…
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Thurles Author Launches New Fantasy Novel
Young adult fantasy to hit bookshelves next week. Laura-Louise Slattery will launch her new book next Wednesday evening, 3rd December. Princess Pineberry and the Sky Paladins of RAM is a young adult fantasy novel, and will make its public debut at a free event in Bookworm, Thurles, at 7pm. A native of the Cathedral town,…
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Premier Writing: Emma Towey
Premier Writing aims to showcase the best poetry and short fiction by new and emerging Irish writers. This week we feature two poems by Emma Towey from Roscommon. Poetry Athena A warrior from Mooncoin failed by the state.A watery apology, nothing but emptywords to echo through time. Sorry for the scandal,but not sorry for all…
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Premier Writing: Michael O’Connor
Premier Writing aims to showcase the best poetry and short fiction by new and emerging writers across Ireland. This week’s short story is by Michael O’Connor from Dublin. Short Story Forgiveness I LEFT EARLY, just after 6. I told no-one. Reversed quietly out of the drive and drove as quietly as I could up the…
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Premier Writing: Katy Croke
Premier Writing aims to showcase the best poetry and short fiction by new and emerging writers from across Ireland. Our debut instalment features three poems by Katy Croke from Tipperary. Poetry The Pearl Bracelet Sometimes I feel like an actor, a protagonist,Cast into a carnival of misery, as incongruent as a field filled with dying…
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