Dermot Bolger

• Dec-1986
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A splendid, entertaining, and sometimes surprising gift book. Includes short stories by: Anne Devlin, Brian Lynch, Pat McCabe, John McGahern, Bernard MacLaverty, Michael McLaverty, Aisling Maguire, Frank O'Connor, Sean O'Faolain, James Plunkett, Will...

• Jun-1990
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''The Journey Home'' is the story of a young boy''s struggle towards maturity, set against a shocking portrait of Ireland: a tough urban landscape, not a rural Eden.Francis Hanrahan, the shy child of grey suburban streets, is Francy at home to his co...

• Aug-1992
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Michael grows into a reclusive young man who works in a Dublin library. He is unable to free himself from a shoe fixation which is now a torment as well as a relief. The author's first two novels received the AE Memorial Award, The Macauley Fellowshi...

• 1993
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• Nov-1995
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This dazzling anthology, edited and introduced by Dermot Bolger, is a splendidly comprehensive and up-to-the-minute collection of the finest recent fiction from a nation of master storytellers. This collection of astonishing breadth reveals a literat...

• Dec-1995
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Published to mark twenty-five years of the Hennessy Literary Awards, this landmark anthology charts the emergence of this latest generation of young Irish writers whose voices will continue to enrich Irish literature well into the next century. Ciara...

• Mar-1998
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• Jan-2000
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Seven beloved Irish writers join forces to describe the revival of a legendary Dublin hotel, in lively, interconnected stories by Maeve Binchy, Clare Boylan, Emma Donoghue, Anne Haverty, +ilis Nf DHuibhne, Kate O'Riordan, and Deirdre Purcell. Origina...

• Mar-2000
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'Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel ...funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror 'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint ...But ...

• Nov-2000
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For Alison Gill, mother of three young children, this year's much-needed family holiday at Fitzgerald's Hotel on the southeast coast of Ireland should be, as ever, absolute paradise. So when a work crisis forces her husband to return to Dublin, she i...

• Sep-2008
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An Irish emigrant in Germany tells his son about football, and about home, through nostalgia for a match played many years ago. This is the story of Euro '88, the largest football event on the continent, and the Irish team are front and center. T...

• Jun-2011
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• Aug-2011
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A classic Bolger novel, following the lives of three women.Set in the grimy backstreets and suburbs of Dublin. Bolger has often used a woman’s voice to tell his story, and this novel is no exception; we follow the lives of three women â€" a Victori...

• Jun-2012
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A stunning historical saga set in the early decades of the twentieth century which follows the lives and loves of one extraordinary family.We first meet the Goold Verschoyle children in 1915. Though there is a war going on in the world outside, they ...

• Mar-2013
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While a floundering Irish government clings to its illusion of power and an international troika waits in the wings, Martin - a mid-ranking civil servant - finds himself alone in a Beijing hotel: a superfluous accessory in a delegation accompanying a...

• May-2015
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Phone the cops or phone Alice. But just don't expect life to ever be the same after you make that call...' When two neighbouring Dublin couples decide to cooperate in building a townhouse that straddles both of their gardens, they have no idea that t...

• Oct-2015
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The third Hennessy Book of Irish Fiction anthology successfully captures the voice of a new and emerging literary generation in Ireland. The book has proven to be an excellent platform for launching upcoming talent, and consists of a selection of the...

• Apr-2016
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• Sep-2016
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'Myles Foley gripped my soaked jumper. Before his ship sank he was a Nazi: now he's a drowning sailor. Out here, we are all sailors. Your father and grandfather understood that. Are you going to disgrace their memory?'Part historical fiction, part ex...

• Sep-2018
• / Literary
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There is one thing you must never lose sight of. No matter what life deals you, promise me that you will strive tooth and nail for the right to be happy.Having surrendered her happiness to raise her children, Eva Fitzgerald d...

• Sep-2018
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A bawdy, vibrant and tumultuous adaptation of James Joyce's classic, by a writer who wants to engage people who may have felt daunted to read Ulysses. Leopold Bloom's odyssey is a pandemonium of live music, puppets, dancing, clowning, bowler hats and...

• Sep-2020
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In his first ever collection of short stories, Dermot Bolger peers under the veneer of our lives, delve into the secrets that bind relationships together or tear them apart, and create worlds where people find that nothing is truly certain. There are...

• Aug-2022
• / Literary
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Following a car crash, for several seconds Dublin photographer Sean Blake is clinically dead but finds his progress towards the afterworld blocked by a haunting face he only partially recognises. Restored to a miraculous second chance at life â€" he ...

• Dec-2024
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Hidden behind the walls of Grangegorman Mental Hospital in 1941, four lives collide, all afflicted by the human cost of wars, betrayals and trauma.Gus, a shrewd attendant, is the keeper of everyone's secrets, especially his own. Two War of Independen...

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Finbar's Hotel is a novel written by seven of Ireland's leading novelists including Roddy Doyle and Colm Toibin. The story is centred around the occupants of an imaginary hotel in Dublin and each of the authors have written an unidentified chapter, l...

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Over the past 20 years, an explosion of contemporary Irish writing has forced its way onto the literary scene. This book contains Irish fiction published since 1968, arranged in the chronological order of the period in which the work is set....