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Magazines:
Ireland’s Own, Wexford |
Ulla’s Nib, Belfast |
Verbal, Derry |
Luciole Press, California |
32nd Old Seamus story, ‘Turning the Tables’,
published in ‘Ireland’s Own’ magazine, based in Wexford.
It was also shortlisted for the Cúirt Award for New Writing in Galway, 2010, and published in the 2010 Cúirt Annual anthology.
The story, Central Library, was published by Creative Writers Network in the Belfast Central Library anthology, OneTwoOne, launched in Belfast on October 22nd, 2009, to celebrate 121 years since the founding of the Library. The anthology also includes stories by some very well thought of Northern Irish writers - including Sam Millar, Ruth Carr, and Liz Weir.
Ballystravey, 1988, (aka, The Bee), published online by Luciole Press, California - September 2009
‘Giving Up’ was commended in the Seán O’Faolain Short Story Competition, organised by the Munster Literature Centre, Cork - part of the Cork International Literary Festival.
Gerry’s story is one of only two by Northern Ireland writers in the top 27, (of 650 entries!), which were described by the judge, Phillip O’Ceallaigh, as "brilliant and worthy of publication."
‘Slipping’ was published in the Spring 2009 issue of Ulla’s Nib magazine (p.16), published by the Creative Writer’s Network, Northern Ireland, (and won the £50 Star Prize in that issue).
‘Dark Night‘, (renamed, ‘The Greatest Gift of All‘), was included among 24 stories in the People's Friend, 2008 Annual.
‘Not Quite Dead’
The following story is the first of two of Gerry’s stories recorded for BBC Radio Ulster’s My Story series. This story was broadcast on 11th May, 2006.
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‘Vertigo’
The second of Gerry’s stories recorded for BBC Radio Ulster’s My Story series. This story was broadcast on 16th June, 2006.
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So far, 35 ‘Old Seamus’ stories have been published in
‘Ireland’s Own’ magazine, from Wexford, Ireland
- the latest one on December 24th, 2011.
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| You can also hear some of the ‘Old Seamus’ stories being read by Gerry on The Seanachie: Tales of Old Seamus podcast: | ||
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 Tale of a Teacup | |
- Read Gerry's Cuírt award winning story, ‘Primroses’
- Listen to ‘Primroses’ being read by Irish actress, Kate O’Toole
- Listen to this story being read by Kate on the
Gerry McCullough podcast
The Cuírt prize was judged by celebrated Nigerian writer, Helon Habila, who had this to say about the winning entry:
I choose Gerry McCullough’s ‘Primroses’ as winner because it is a simple and well judged story about very difficult themes: courage, paedophilia, and growing old. The author has managed to truly inhabit [her] narrator, to use his voice, and to clearly see his point of view – these make the story so convincing that the reader is not aware how difficult it is to achieve.
Age and the passage of time are shown in the change in the landscape, in the ugly square houses that have sprouted to replace the beautiful flower gardens of the narratorís youth. The relationship between the narrator and the little girl, Jacqueline, is used to recapture the relationship between the narrator and his dead wife: youth and age, present and past are thus simultaneously captured in a single frame.
The narrator refuses to back down from his purely innocent relationship with Jacqueline even at the risk of being seen as a paedophile, this takes courage. Finally the story is about flowers – primroses – those beautiful, non-utilitarian things that symbolise the brittleness of existence, the fine balance on which everything rests, transience, and trust.
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