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Gary Rutherford Stories Combined in a Meal for the Mind. A Bowl of Irish stew was conceived and compiled by Gary Rutherford as a way to collect and publish donated stories, reflections and poems generating a sustainable funding source to support the work of mental health services. The beneficiary of this book will be Pieta House. Here we share stories of hope, love, courage and mental health recovery mingled with reflections, anecdotes and poems. We offer the creativity and generosity of each of our authors as proof positive – Everyone has a story to tell. abowlofirishstew.ie -
The best of the Cork County Library and Arts Service From the Well Short Story Competition 2016 Contributors: Paddy Doyle James Bilson Louise Cole Liam Collins Mary Cooke Elizabeth Desmond Susan Eames Anna Foley Alyn Fenn Marie Gethins Anne Griffin Catherine Kirwan Barbary Leahy Róisin Leggett Mary Rose McCarthy Colm Gerard McDermott Silke O’Reilly Colm Scully Nick Smith Phil Young -
Alan Egan
In this début collection from Alan Egan you’ll find all kinds of stories, short, medium and long-ish, interspersed with lightning bursts of flash fiction. Tales of sadness and joy, love and loss, nonsense and nostalgia, defeat and victory, guilt and innocence. Some of these stories are true, although not perhaps the ones you might think. After a long career in the financial world, Cork man Alan Egan “retired”, travelled widely, went to university as a fulltime student, collected a couple of degrees and became a tutor. Around this time he also began to write fiction, and since then many of his stories have been published locally, nationally, and internationally. -
Garrett Malone
By now, I knew that watching sports was what fulfilled me, and I completely immersed myself in everything on offer.’
In the summer of 1985, in the midlands of Ireland, a young boy is suddenly awakened to a new and exciting world. Sport, in all its Technicolor brilliance, blazes into view, and a life is altered forever. From the thrills of Italia ’90 to the tribulations of supporting Laois, from Shoot magazine to Subbuteo, Goal-den Days is the coming-of-age memoir of a sports fanatic. Filled with memories of glorious games and outstanding athletes, demoralising defeats, and valiant victories, Goal-den Days is a sporting mix tape in book form, that will resonate with all those who collected Panini stickers and wore Mikasa gloves to training. -
John Barry
This is a collection of John Barry’s favourite funny stories from over the years. He has always enjoyed laughing and when he hears a good yarn tries to remember it and now hopes to share his funniest stories through this book. John Barry was born in Cork to a family involved in the tea business. He left Cork in 1975 and travelled around the world where he started collecting stories always with a particular fondness for Irish stories.
“I hope they bring some light relief to the readers in an uncertain world. Without humour we are doomed. Nothing is more disposable than a joke.”
– John Barry
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Granny Woodfort Jackie Dorey Stories - "The Wind and the Willows" of Irish literature.Every story of my childhood had the introduction, “I’ll tell you a story about Jackie Dorey,” and from there on Jackie Dorey could take you on the most wonderful journeys. He held the key to a door into a world of magic and wonder. It was a place where you met the most amazing people and anything could happen; a wonderful world of imagination and make believe, where the little people could weave cobwebs of golden wonder all around you. These were the stories we told to each other. But Jacky never found his way into a book. Now at last Jacky Dorey has his own book. Well done Granny Woodfort!
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The Hag with the Bag is a collection of stories by Jackie Ayres Kelly. The title story, beautifully illustrated by Alison Barry, is a fantasy about Edith Honeysuckle, who has the power to move between the human and animal worlds with ease, thanks to her shapeshifting abilities. Edith, loved her animal friends but not everyone had the same love and understanding of the animal kingdom as Edith, and some even went out of their way to harm them. Edith’s mission, along with an unexpected ally, is to change their minds. A donation from the sale of each copy will be given to an animal charity. -
Michael Galvin
“What I am discovering however, is that this desire, this impulse to record my presence, is alive and well in me, and is growing in intensity as the years roll into one other. I feel the Spirit encouraging me ever so positively not alone to give such an undertaking serious consideration but to get on with it.”
The author is clearly highly attuned to the interplay between the natural environment, its creatures and us humans, and we are provided with appealing pen pictures of people, places, and moments in time, experienced in his beloved paradise that is the Beara Peninsula. In the latter section of the book, a fascinating dialogue takes place on the question of whether we humans 'are happy' given the wonders and beauty of the universe provided by the Creator for our enjoyment. Each copy of this book is signed by the author. -
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Anne McSweeney Following the success of “The Tips of Her Toes in the Ocean” Anne McSweeney published her second book “Watching The Wild Waves Motion” in much the same vein. Each story can be read in isolation, you can pick and choose where you want to start. “A great read, beautifully done”- Mary E Winn, Ormskirk, Liverpool.
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