 The first featured poet was Phillip Crymble.Along with "The Dublin Review", "The Honest Ulsterman", "The Dublin Review of Books", and various other titles, it is one of a number of periodicals to have contributed to a boom in Irish literary journals over the past decade.The Stinging Fly Press was established in 2005, and the first title, "Watermark" by Derry-born author Sean O'Reilly, was published in May that year.