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Shrine Runner up in 2009 in a writing competition organised by the National Museum of Ireland for a story inspired by the Moylough Belt Shrine |
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It's Hard to Die in Springtime Winner of the 2008 Molly Keane Short Story competition |
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Flowering Cherry Winner of the 2007 Bryan MacMahon award at Listowel Writers’ Week |
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Letting Rip This story won first prize in the James Plunkett Short Story competition of 2004, organised through the Irish Writers' Union. |
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Hazard |
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Blip This story was published in The Stinging Fly Issue 7 (Spring/Summer 2000) |
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Evening's Empire This story was entered for the Falling Leaves short story competition and broadcast on Cork Local radio in the late nineties. |
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The Meadow This story was first published in 1998 in issue 3 of the magazine The Stinging Fly and subsequently in the anthology Irish Writers Against War 2003. It was also performed by Olwen Fouere in a production entitled About the Days at the Project Theatre, Dublin in August 2003. The actor prerecorded the story in a passage grave in Tara and her disembodied voice emerged from darkness. |
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For ever and ever This story was published in The Stinging Fly in 2001. On a trip to Cuba in that year, I avoided as much as possible the Hemingway tourist trail which seemed largely to consist of going from bar to bar, tasting the great man's allegedly favourite tipple in each one. Nonetheless, I strayed into Hemingway territory briefly when I visited Cojímar, a fishing village near Havana where he had moored his yacht, the Pilar. Gregorio Fuentes, Hemingway's fishing guide and skipper, a centenarian, was still living there (he died the following year, I think) and reminisced to tourists for a fee of $50. I didn't see Gregorio, who is said to have inspired the tale, "The Old Man and the Sea", but I was taken with the circumstance and used it as the basic of the following short piece. This story is not about Gregorio in any biographical sense, nor about Hemingway, but is an imagination recreation, inky markings on a white page. |
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Jealousy This story came third in RTE's radio short story competition 2002 and was broadcast in February of that year. |
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Changing Trains This story was short-listed for the Aspire First National Story Awards (1997) and published in an anthology entitled Short Work. I still like it although I have removed a lot of the commas. |
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Film World This story was published in the Waterford Review, Vol. 4 in 1994. I have made some minor changes. |
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