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The Irish Read: A short story from Wendy Erskine
The Irish Read: A short story from Philip Ó Ceallaigh's new collection, Trouble
The Irish Read: A short story from Adrian Duncan's new collection
Aoife Barry
Have your work featured on TheJournal.ie thanks to RTÉ's short story competition
Opinion: Want to use this time to write a short story? Here are some top tips
Vincent Woods
Write short stories? Here's your chance to have your work featured on TheJournal.ie and RTÉ
A short story before bedtime: The Boxer Rebellion
Liz Houchin
A short story before bedtime: Vena Amoris
Niall McArdle
RTÉ Radio 1 short story award winner: 'Honey Days'
Stephen O'Reilly
A short story before bedtime: Bluebell Meadow by Benedict Kiely
Benedict Kiely
Want to get writing and featured on TheJournal.ie? RTÉ Radio 1's short story competition is now open
'‘Have you seen her legs?’ and other stories from Fat Land': An award-winning short story before bedtime
'Ashes': An award-winning short story before bedtime
Short story: 'To all their dues'
Wendy Erskine
Who was Francis MacManus, and how did he inspire Ireland's longest-running short story contest?
Short story: 'When Blue Snowflakes Fall' by Eoin Dolan Lane
Eoin Dolan Lane
Francis McManus short story winner: The Flare Carves Itself Through The Dark
Colin Walsh
A short story before bedtime: Levitation
Sean O'Reilly
An award-winning story before bedtime: I Could Have Been a Dancer
An award-winning short story before bedtime: The Taking of Mrs Kennedy
'Crouched Burial': An award-winning poem before bedtime
A girl was forced to miss a school test because her outfit was 'too distracting'
"D-yeh know what it is - ? He made me happy": Roddy Doyle's perfect tribute to Bill
'He’s grand but he’s an irritatin’ little pr*ck as well' - Roddy Doyle's post on marriage equality is going viral
Roddy Doyle wrote a great short story about marriage equality, and it's going viral
There is Microsoft Word porn, and the world is officially insane
JK Rowling to release a new Harry Potter short story on Halloween
JK Rowling has written a brand new Harry Potter short story
Short Story: Whalesong
Barbara Leahy
Short Story: The Chamber Pot
Richard Ball
Short Story: The Oyster Catchers
Beth Tyrrell
Watch Frank Kelly tell a great short story over a pint
This short Twitter story by R.L. Stine will give you Goosebumps all over again
Jan Vertonghen pulled a Villa striker's shorts down and got away with it
Hillsborough revisited in 'The Real Thing' short story
Niamh Cooper O'Sullivan
That awkward moment when Kieran Donaghy pulls your shorts down on TV
WIN: Tickets to Guests of the Nation at the NCH