An urgent and unforgettable collection of stories, Show Them a Good Time explores types - men and women, their assigned roles and meanings - in today's society.
The Summer 2020 issue features new fiction from Louise Hegarty and Niamh Campbell, poetry from Nidhi Zak and Manuela Moser, and an essay on K-Pop from Lisa McInerney. The Stinging Fly magazine was established in 1997 to seek out, publish and promote the very best new Irish and international writing.
Written over the course of ten years, while the author has been living in America’s northeast and southeast, Mary O’Donoghue’s stories in The Hour After Happy Hour reach into the wounds of immigration, transit, and exile.
Published to mark 20 years of Bewley’s Café Theatre The seven plays: Fred & Alice by John Sheehy The Importance of Being Honest by Billie Traynor The Quiet Land by Malachy McKenna Cirque des Rêves by Katie McCann All honey by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth Normal by Caitríona Daly Wringer by Stewart Roche
The stories in this collection range from the absurd: a world beset by a sickness that slowly turns everyone blue; a woman who rears a child that gets older, but never ages; a wife making friends with her husband's sex-doll - to the sublime: a man reconnecting with his estranged daughter through homemade movies filmed on a non-existent camera, a woman saving a child from a train wreck.