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Billy O’Callaghan: ‘Truth is everything, even in a ghost story’

Billy O’Callaghan: ‘Truth is everything, even in a ghost story’ | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
From Poe to MR James, le Fanu and Stephen King, The Dead House author Billy O’Callaghan always loved ghost stories but his grandmother’s tales influence him most
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Southword Journal-Short Story by Billy O'Callaghan

Southword Journal-Short Story by Billy O'Callaghan | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
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The Writing Process: Billy O’Callaghan

The Writing Process: Billy O’Callaghan | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
I love short stories and can't go a day without reading at least one. My shelves are crammed with collections that I've been hoarding since my teens, books by household names alongside translated volumes by writers considered obscure even in their native language. I have also been writing stories, in serious fashion, for probably the past fifteen years. In that time, I've suffered a huge amount of rejection, though I've enjoyed enough morsels of success – the vital encouragement of a publication here, a prize or short-listing there – to keep me biting. Mercier Press published my second collection, In Too Deep, in the summer of 2009 (they'd also published my first collection, In Exile, a year or so earlier), and while it was reasonably well received by the few critics who bothered to give it a look, its sales figures were distinctly unremarkable. And then the whispers started: “Short…
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The Reading Life: The Things We Lose, The Things We Leave Behind and Other Short Stories by Billy O'Callaghan (2013)

The Reading Life: The Things We Lose, The Things We Leave Behind and Other Short Stories by Billy O'Callaghan (2013) | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
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From Amergin’s invocation of Ireland to those who are shaping its future-Review by Billy O'Callaghan | Irish Examiner

From Amergin’s invocation of Ireland to those who are shaping its future-Review by Billy O'Callaghan | Irish Examiner | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
Cork Literary Review volume XV
Edited by Eugene O’Connell Bradshaw Books, €22
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Read the Stories on the 2013 Shortlist: Writing.ie Short Story of the Year | Irish Book Awards

Read the Stories on the 2013 Shortlist: Writing.ie Short Story of the Year | Irish Book Awards | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
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Grand Finale Part 1 - Billy O'Callaghan reads - Lennox Robinson Lit Fest 2015 - YouTube

The 2015 Lennox Robinson Literary Festival's closing event took place in St. Luke's Church Douglas, on the 1st March 2015. The event saw readings by Billy O'...
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Throwing in the Towel by Billy O'Callaghan | Bellevue Literary Review

Throwing in the Towel



Billy O’Callaghan, Fiction

I had seen him years before, back when he was still in something like his prime, when he was trying to make a name for himself as if that were a thing which mattered worth a damn. And it’s funny, but he looks the same as I remember, more or less, anyway, except that the edges are gone, all that finesse and guile. Time, I suppose, turns everything soft. Now he has become just another old fighter, sloshed on one too many hits to the head. He looks the same, if you can see beyond the fur of bad or at least questionable living, but even from a long way off you can tell that damage has been done.

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Short Story of the Year - Irish Book Awards

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A ruin on the Beara peninsula - Billy O'Callaghan

A ruin on the Beara peninsula - Billy O'Callaghan | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
A few years ago, I was driving the Beara Peninsula and happened across the house of my dreams.
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Pennies from Heaven - by Billy O'Callaghan Irish Examiner

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Pennies from Heaven
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ONLY a short distance separated the church from the parochial house, barely half a mile along the sweeping boreen that skirted the top of the village, but Fr.
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