26th January 2024
The text of our 2023 lecture, which was delivered by short-story writer and novelist, Evelyn Conlon.
11th October 2023
‘They go around the block, dancing in their seats, screaming the lyrics at the bewildered Chris, and she finds herself wishing that they’ll never get there—that they could keep driving around and around like this forever.’
28th September 2022
‘Waitressing is a career of invention. An old manager of mine once convinced a table that a nail that had fallen into a guest’s grilled fish from a loose shelf in the kitchen was, in fact, just part of a fish hook, leftover from the fisherman’s own line that morning.’
28th July 2022
A series of short essays reflecting on the experience of rejection. Contributors: Danielle McLaughlin, Jill Crawford, Neil Hegarty, Angelique Tran Van Sang, Anna Walsh, Mia Gallagher, with an introduction by Thomas Morris.
3rd February 2021
"What do you think of, I said to my husband that evening, when you think of Monica Lewinsky?"
4th December 2020
Michelle Coyne's anaesthetised protagonist falls into dangerous, freeing obsession on an Icelandic holiday.
3rd December 2020
A despairing brother is roused by Mattie Brennan's unforgettable Mannions on a hard-drinking train journey from Galway to Dublin.
6th October 2020
A new short story from the author of 'Darker With the Lights On'.
