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# The Gist: A week of Christmas Crackers
- URL: https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-a-week-of-christmas-crackers/
- Published: 2024-12-27T13:14:28.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-27T13:14:28.000Z
- Author: Simon McGarr

To keep us all afloat in the great void of leftovers between Christmas and New Year, I've asked some people whose work I enjoy to contribute a piece to the Gist. 

These are the Christmas Crackers you found on Stephens' Day and keep opening on the drifting mush of time afterwards. Like a cracker, you're never sure what you might get. We have essays, film criticism, short stories and a review of some of the Gist's 2024 in cartoon form. 

Please enjoy, while unconsciously filling your mouth with chocolate from an [open box of Merch for a 19th Century play](https://www.leedsplayhouse.org.uk/unwrapping-the-sweet-story-of-quality-street/?ref=thegist.ie) nobody remembers.