From a New York Times story by Max Ufberg headlined “How a Tiny Literary Magazine Became a Springboard for Great Irish Writing”:
Before Sally Rooney was the author of best-selling books, and well before those books became buzzy television series, she was an undergraduate student at Trinity College Dublin with a growing pile of unpublished poems and no contacts in the writing world. Her first break came in 2010, when The Stinging Fly, a small Irish literary magazine, agreed to publish her work.