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RTÉ Short Story Competition

RTÉ Short Story Competition

RTÉ Radio 1

Irish short fiction for radio, selected from the long-running annual contest in honour of Francis MacManus run by RTÉ, Irish public radio. A shortlist is broadcast every year, voiced by some of Ireland's most talented actors of the stage and screen. For more visit rte.ie/culture and rte.ie/writing.

11 - Guinness & Coke by Lochlainn McKenna, read by Éanna Hardwicke
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  • 11 - Guinness & Coke by Lochlainn McKenna, read by Éanna Hardwicke

    Guinness & Coke by Lochlainn McKenna one of the 10 Shortlisted Stories in this year's competition, tells of father-and-son weekend adventures by car throughout the length and breadth of the country. Wonderfully written with matter-of-fact child’s eye storytelling but with an undertow of sadness

    Sat, 10 Oct 2020 - 14min
  • 10 - Tactics by Andrew Maguire, read by Ignacy Rybarczyck

    Tonight’s story from the shortlist of this year's RTÉ Short Story Competition, Tactics, by Andrew Maguire, is “impressive, commanding and intense” in the words of the judges. Unusually – but to great effect – it’s told in the future tense. It features a boy, Wojciech, who plays snooker with older Irish men in a shebeen – playing to win

    Fri, 9 Oct 2020 - 14min
  • 9 - Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Julie Cruikshank, read by Cathy Belton

    In Beneath the Trees, Where Nobody Sees, by Julie Cruickshank, a woman takes her daughters and nephew on a playdate to a park where there’s a tree the children love. But underneath the surface, something darker is going on…

    Thu, 8 Oct 2020 - 15min
  • 8 - Everything will be Recorded by Sean Mackel, read by Lalor Roddy

    One of the 10 Shortlisted Stories from this year's competition, the story moves fluently between past and present as a man and his granddaughter in Inishowen try to rescue an injured bird. Everything will be Recorded is read by Lalor Roddy

    Wed, 7 Oct 2020 - 14min
  • 7 - The Brow of the Hill by Edel Moloney, read by Derbhle Crotty

    The Brow of the Hill, one of this year's shortlisted of ten, "takes us to a snowy Sunday morning in December 1886 on the feast of St Sabas, a day when death and life intermingle. The setting is magnificently rendered, the images are striking, it’s like stepping inside a painting. " The Brow of the Hill by Edel Moloney is read by Derbhle Crotty

    Tue, 6 Oct 2020 - 13min
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