The Stinging Fly : Summer 2015

The Stinging Fly : Summer 2015

Fiction Danielle McLaughlin - ‘Silhouette’ Maurice Leitch - ‘Tell Me About It (An Extract)’ Kevin Barry - ‘monologue for cabman’ Sean O'Reilly - ‘Downstream’ Poetry Harry Clifton - ‘‘Autumn Journal’ by Louis MacNeice’ Harry Clifton - ‘MacNeice’s London’ Martina Evans - ‘London’ Michael Ray - ‘Death Trap for Beauty’ Sarah Barnsley - ‘A Zoology of London’ Gary Allen - ‘Letter From the Republic of London’ Mary Noonan - ‘High Street Kensington’ Catherine Higgins-Moore - ‘On the South Bank’ David Nash - ‘How To Be Irish From a Distance’ Declan Ryan - ‘It Takes An Ocean Not To Break’ Cathy Sweeney - ‘The City’ Essays Pádraigín Riggs - ‘Pádraic Ó Conaire: Finding sanctuary in exile’ Tony Murray - ‘From the Heroic to the Elegiac: Portrayals of the Post-War Irish Navvy in London’ Clair Wills - ‘‘Well, there was the Irish’’ Evelyn Conlon - ‘Those London Visits’ Matthew Sweeney - ‘Days of the Lamb’ Gavin Corbett - ‘Ghastly’ Claire-Louise Bennett - ‘Suddenly a Duck’ Niamh Mulvey - ‘Some Notions of Home’ Edna O’Brien - ‘A Woman in Transit’