"The Golden Shanty" is a humorous short story by Australian writer Edward Dyson. It was first published in the 24 December 1887 issue of The Bulletin,^[1] and later included in the author's short story collection, Below and On Top, and in many short story anthologies.^[2] It was originally published under the title "The Profitable Pub". It is also known by the title "A Golden Shanty".^[2]

The Shamrock Hotel stands on an abandoned goldfield near Ballarat in Victoria. It is owned by Irish-Australian publication Michael Doyle. After some local Chinese fossickers offer him £50 for the building, which he accepts, Doyle discovers that the hotel is made from high-yielding, gold-bearing clay bricks.

• A Golden Shanty: Australian Stories and Sketches in Prose and Verse, Bulletin, 1890^[3]
• Below and On Top, George Robertson, 1898
• The Golden Shanty, George Robertson, 1911
• Australian Short Stories edited by George Mackaness, J. M. Dent, 1928
• The Bulletin, 1 February 1950^[4]
• Favourite Australian Stories edited by Colin Thiele, Rigby, 1963
• The Golden Shanty, Angus and Robertson, 1963
• Short Stories of Australia: The Lawson Tradition edited by Douglas Stewart, Angus and Robertson, 1967
• Best Australian Short Stories edited by Douglas Stewart and Beatrice Davis, Lloyd O' Neill, 1971
• It Could Be You edited by Hal Porter, Rigby, 1972
• The Penguin Best Australian Short Stories edited by Mary Lord, Penguin, 1991
• The Penguin Book of 19th Century Australian Literature edited by Michael Ackland, Penguin, 1993
• From Yellow Earth to Eucalypt: Stories and Poems from China and Australia edited by Neil Whitfield, Longman, 1995

The story was also reprinted in a number of Australian newspapers.

• The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature calls the story "one of Australia's most famous goldfields stories", and then goes on to state: "Despite its humour, 'A Golden Shanty' reflects the hostility that existed between white men and the Chinese on the goldfields.'"^[5]

• 1887 in Australian literature