The Stinging Fly Issue 31/Volume 2 Summer 2015 - London Issue

Fiction
Danielle McLaughlin - ‘Silhouette’
Maurice Leitch - ‘Tell Me About It (An Extract)’
Kevin Barry - ‘monologue for cabman’
Sean O'Reilly - ‘Downstream’
Poetry
Harry Clifton - ‘‘Autumn Journal’ by Louis MacNeice’
Harry Clifton - ‘MacNeice’s London’
Martina Evans - ‘London’
Michael Ray - ‘Death Trap for Beauty’
Sarah Barnsley - ‘A Zoology of London’
Gary Allen - ‘Letter From the Republic of London’
Mary Noonan - ‘High Street Kensington’
Catherine Higgins-Moore - ‘On the South Bank’
David Nash - ‘How To Be Irish From a Distance’
Declan Ryan - ‘It Takes An Ocean Not To Break’
Cathy Sweeney - ‘The City’
Essays
Pádraigín Riggs - ‘Pádraic Ó Conaire: Finding sanctuary in exile’
Tony Murray - ‘From the Heroic to the Elegiac: Portrayals of the Post-War Irish Navvy in London’
Clair Wills - ‘‘Well, there was the Irish’’
Evelyn Conlon - ‘Those London Visits’
Matthew Sweeney - ‘Days of the Lamb’
Gavin Corbett - ‘Ghastly’
Claire-Louise Bennett - ‘Suddenly a Duck’
Niamh Mulvey - ‘Some Notions of Home’
Edna O’Brien - ‘A Woman in Transit’