The Stinging Fly Issue 51/Volume Two | Winter 2024-25

Editorial | Lisa McInerney FICTION Keith Ridgway | The Wrong Thing Brendan Killeen | What We Make as Men Paweł Huelle (translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) | The Bridge Rowe Irvin | Carrier Tim MacGabhann | Pit Lowen Reilly | Outlines James Young | Long Term Parking Sean Cavanaugh | Boyfriend Reacts Alicia McAuley | Composition No. 49 Paula Dias Garcia | The Woods Kirsty Logan | Nightfall Clemens Meyer (translated by Katy Derbyshire) | The Bells POETRY Featured Poet: Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha (translated by Peter Sirr) | Six poems Martina Evans | Drunken Driving (an extract) Dean Browne | Interval (in which, snow) Leeanne Quinn | Two poems Rosamund Taylor | Drop... Drop... Paula Meehan | The Liffey Banks, Claddagh Records, 1972 Milena Williamson | Charm for a Sudden Stitch (Remixed) Ian Duhig | Eternals Karl Parkinson | Don’t Want to Die Jake Kennedy | The Visions of Agnes Martin Daniel Shannon | Votives at Sacré-Coeur Pascale Petit | Skinner Kate Wakeling | blood sugar Grayson Del Faro | A History of Iceland as Told by the Foxes NON-FICTION Dan Hogan | Orbital Decay Eimear McBride | I Once Saw a Beautiful Place Dulce Maria Cardoso (translated by Rosa Churcher Clarke) | Smoke and Mirrors Darragh McCausland | Isometric Games Nicole Morris | How to Get Rid of a Ghost, Part One Cover art | Hazel Coonagh