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CONTENTS

Editorial

THE NORA FAHY LITERARY AWARDS FOR SHORT STORY
Judge: Katy Hayes

• First Prize: Elizabeth Carty, 'Daisy Chains'
• Second Prize: Paul Brownsey, 'Lingering Hatred'
• Shared Third Prize: Máiríde Woods, 'Listening to Frankie'
• Shared Third Prize: Michael Wynne, 'Thalidomide'

THE NORA FAHY LITERARY AWARDS FOR POETRY
Judge: Gabriel Fitzmaurice

• First Prize: Frank Dullaghan, 'Ferdeidh prepares to Meet Cuchulain'
• Second Prize:
• Third Prize: Eileen Casey, 'Kate'

Poems
John Liddy, 'The Last House in Connaught'
Gabriel Fitzmaurice, 'Gaeltacht'

Interviews
John Doorty: 'Out of the Heavens in Showers', Part III: School Years, An interview with Micho Russell and 'Making Something New of Salmon' An interview with Jessie Lendennie

Reviews
Knute Skinner: Eamonn Wall's 'Iron Mountain Road'
Patrick Early: Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes' 'The School Bag'
Helen Fallon: Mary Morrissy's 'Mother of Pearl'
Edna Faye Kiel: A Promising Outlet 'The Seasons', A periodical

 

EDITORIAL 1997

The annual issue of New Series: Departures is now firmly set as a significant event in the Irish literary calendar. This edition contains the winning poetry and stories from The Nora Fahy Literary Awards 1997, run in conjunction with New Series. We would like to congratulate this year's winners and thank them for choosing us for their work. Although quite modest in its financial reward to the prizewinners (IR£350) by today's standards, The Nora Fahy Literary Awards have a growing prestige - judging by the submissions we receive from at home and abroad. Our aim is to give recognition and encouragement where due to writers writing anywhere and to see their work published in New Series: Departures.

I would like to thank all our sponsors, contributors and judges mentioned elsewhere in this issue, and, indeed, all our sponsors since 1987. We wish them continued success and prosperity. Our thanks to Michael John Glynne for scanning services, and David Lang for permission to reproduce his painting, 'The Drum'. To the writers who submitted work to The Nora Fahy Literary Awards 1997 and helped to make this issue possible, we are most grateful. We wish you all continued success with your writing and hope to see you submit again. I am as always indebted to the support of family and friends without whom this work can not continue. And finally, to my associate editors, Edna Faye Kiel and Knute Skinner for the long hours of voluntary hard work bringing this issue to you, special thanks.

John Doorty (Editor)
June 1997