Reviewer score To mark its reigning year as European Capital of Culture, The Stinging Fly invited writers established and new to submit work inspired by the City of the Tribes. The result is this Galway-themed edition with Lisa McInerney ( The Glorious Heresies) at the helm and Elaine Feeney ( As You Were) as poetry editor. In her introduction, Lisa McInerney writes that Galway is 'more complex than its popular image.’ We can take it then that this collection intends to reflect on that very complexity. Galway is frequently romanticised, and not just from the outside. It’s long been a magnet for creative types, seen as somewhat bohemian and ‘studenty’, a destination of choice for hen and stag parties, and the last bastion of civilisation before the wilds of Connemara. The miscellany of writing here however shows that the traditional associations don’t sufficiently sum up the city anymore, either in concept or reality, if indeed they ever did.