It’s getting harder to find what can be called a farm movie. As the number of agricultural holdings decrease, so...
Previously, novelist Gráinne Murphy announced her shortlist of three essays and ten short stories for the 2023 Best in Rural...
The inaugural Best in Rural Writing Contest has now come to an end. The Milk House is grateful to the...
The judge of the 2025 Best in Rural Writing Contest, Jamie Guiney, just completed the challenging task of choosing 10...
Crossing Places At the crossing places when the river is still and ghosts untangle themselves from the trees you can...
“I know what Winnie the Pooh would say,” Jasmine tells me. She is driving with one arm hanging out the...
Ryan Dennis is the author of The Beasts They Turned Away, a novel set on an Irish dairy farm. He shares...
After an incredible response from writers that resulted in a large collection of talented work, judge Gráinne Murphy took on...
The judge of the 2024 Best in Rural Writing Contest, Dr. Chea Parton, just completed the difficult task of choosing 10...
Boluisce I root my fingers, burying them back and down. A twist into black, acidic soil, deeper than anything man-made....
Even after so many years, tears still fill my eyes when I think of my brother’s farm accident. That was...
The Irish are renowned storytellers. From Nobel prize winning literature to pub talk we are saturated in stories. We listen...