Trouble: Sharply observed stories of disappointed lives and concrete nightmares

Philip Ó Ceallaigh is unlike any other writer from this island

SHORT STORIES

Trouble

By Philip Ó Ceallaigh

The Stinging Fly, €15

Born in Ireland, but living in eastern Europe since the early 1990s, Philip Ó Ceallaigh is unlike any other writer from this island. Were it not for his surname, one would have difficulty in placing him as a native of these shores.

Many of his short stories are set in Bucharest and it’s not just the place names that seem different, Ó Ceallaigh’s writing ...