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The Irish Read: A short story from Wendy Erskine
Check out an extract from a story out of the Belfast writer’s new collection, Dance Move.
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The Irish Read: A short story from Philip Ó Ceallaigh's new collection, Trouble
Enjoy a section from a new work by an Irish author this Sunday morning.
The Irish Read: A short story from Adrian Duncan's new collection
Enjoy a section from a new work by an Irish author this Sunday morning.
Have your work featured on TheJournal.ie thanks to RTÉ's short story competition
This year’s judges are Lisa McInerney, Declan Hughes and Lisa Caldwell.
Opinion: Want to use this time to write a short story? Here are some top tips
We have some tips from author Vincent Woods to inspire you.
Write short stories? Here's your chance to have your work featured on TheJournal.ie and RTÉ
The RTÉ Short Story competition is back for 2020 – and once again we’ll be featuring three winning stories on our site.
A short story before bedtime: The Boxer Rebellion
Read the third place winner in this year’s RTÉ Radio 1 Short Story Award, in memory of Francis McManus.
A short story before bedtime: Vena Amoris
The story came second in this year’s RTÉ Short Story Awards in memory of Francis McManus.
RTÉ Radio 1 short story award winner: 'Honey Days'
Read the overall winner of this year’s RTÉ Radio 1 Short Story Award, in memory of Francis McManus.
A short story before bedtime: Bluebell Meadow by Benedict Kiely
Kiely would have been 100 on 15 August of this year. Born in Dromore, he had a long and prolific writing career.
Want to get writing and featured on TheJournal.ie? RTÉ Radio 1's short story competition is now open
The winners of the RTÉ Radio 1 Short Story Competition will have their work featured on TheJournal.ie and on the station.
'‘Have you seen her legs?’ and other stories from Fat Land': An award-winning short story before bedtime
The story, by Claire Mulligan, won third prize at this year’s RTÉ Radio 1 Short Story Competition in honour of Francis McManus.
'Ashes': An award-winning short story before bedtime
Ashes, by Claire Zwaartmann, won first prize at this year’s RTÉ Radio 1 Short Story Competition in honour of Francis McManus.
Short story: 'To all their dues'
We feature a short story by Belfast writer Wendy Erskine from the new collection, Stinging Fly Stories.
Who was Francis MacManus, and how did he inspire Ireland's longest-running short story contest?
The competition – described as a “window on Irish society” – is now open to entries.
Short story: 'When Blue Snowflakes Fall' by Eoin Dolan Lane
The Broken Spiral, an anthology of short stories which will raise funds for the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.
Francis McManus short story winner: The Flare Carves Itself Through The Dark
Colin Walsh has been announced as this year’s winner of the Francis MacManus Short Story Competition. This is his winning story.
A short story before bedtime: Levitation
Taken from Levitation, the latest collection by Irish writer Sean O’Reilly.
An award-winning story before bedtime: I Could Have Been a Dancer
Read a story which won the First Fiction award at this year’s Hennessy Literary Awards.
An award-winning short story before bedtime: The Taking of Mrs Kennedy
Read the winner of the Emerging Fiction category in this year’s Hennessy Literary Awards.
'Crouched Burial': An award-winning poem before bedtime
A poem from this year’s Hennessy Awards Winner for Emerging Poetry, Una Mannion.
A girl was forced to miss a school test because her outfit was 'too distracting'
“She told me she’d rather me completely miss the test than distract the boys from doing well on theirs.”
"D-yeh know what it is - ? He made me happy": Roddy Doyle's perfect tribute to Bill
Roddy’s famous ‘two men in the pub’ have been weighing in on the sports anchor’s passing.
'He’s grand but he’s an irritatin’ little pr*ck as well' - Roddy Doyle's post on marriage equality is going viral
The author posted the short story on his Facebook page.
Roddy Doyle wrote a great short story about marriage equality, and it's going viral
In which Ronaldo decides how one man is going to vote in the referendum. Read it.
JK Rowling to release a new Harry Potter short story on Halloween
This time, the reviled Professor Umbridge is in the spotlight.
JK Rowling has written a brand new Harry Potter short story
It’s available to read on her website, Pottermore.
Short Story: Whalesong
The third prize winner of the RTÉ Radio Francis MacManus Short Story Competition 2014.
Short Story: The Chamber Pot
The second prize winner of the RTÉ Radio Francis MacManus Short Story Competition 2014.
Short Story: The Oyster Catchers
The winner of the RTÉ Radio Francis MacManus Short Story Competition 2014.
Watch Frank Kelly tell a great short story over a pint
‘Dog Pound’ has the Father Ted actor relate a real aul’ shaggy dog tale.
This short Twitter story by R.L. Stine will give you Goosebumps all over again
The spooky tale by the childen’s horror author will take you right back.
Jan Vertonghen pulled a Villa striker's shorts down and got away with it
Someone could have lost an eye.
Hillsborough revisited in 'The Real Thing' short story
As Hillsborough families continue to strive for truth about how 96 people died, Irish writer Niamh Cooper O’Sullivan shares a fictional depiction of the horror of 15 April 1989.
That awkward moment when Kieran Donaghy pulls your shorts down on TV
The Kerry forward embarrassed Laois native and Carlton prospect Zach Touhy after the Series win earlier.
