Dermot Bolger

When Francis Hanrahan, the shy child of grey suburbia meets Shay, an older, wilder image of himself, he is cast out into the night-time world of Dublin. This is the story of a young boy's struggle towards maturity, set against a shocking image of Ireland, a tough urban landscape not a rural Eden.

The Journey Home

The Family on Paradise Pier

Draws only on Irish fiction published since 1970.

The Picador Book of Irish Contemporary Fiction

Irish Writers Abroad

Ireland in Exile

Night Shift

‘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.

The New Dubliners : a Journey Through Unofficial Dublin

Invisible Cities

In 1994 the Dublin novelist and playwright Dermot Bolger was commissioned to adapt the novel Ulysses for the stage as the centerpiece of Philadelphia's celebration of the 90th Bloomsday. A Dublin Bloom is the text of that commission, a dramatic and brilliant re-imagining of Joyce's world in theatrical terms.... A fresh and vigorous work of art. -- Fintan O'Toole.

An Original Free Adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses

A Dublin Bloom

The lament for Arthur Cleary: transposes an old story of love and death to modern-day Dublin. When Arthur Cleary returns to Dublin, the city of his youth, he feels lost in the same streets he grew up in. The new Dublin, the Dublin of the 1980s, is damaged by unemployment and heroin.

A Dublin Quartet

Temptation

A widow spends weeks haunting a cemetery, desperate to track down an unknown woman who keeps leaving flowers on her husband's grave; A daughter searches a foreign city for her father, trying to understand why he disappeared forty-five years ago; A former gay lover of Roger Casement stands among the crowds at his state funeral in 1965, paying silent homage to the closeted world they were forced to inhabit at the dawning of the Irish State. A writer at a book launch comes face to face with the person secretly responsible for his success. In his first collection of short stories, Dermot Bolger peers under the veneer of our lives, exploring the secrets that bind families together, or tear them apart, creating worlds where people find that nothing is truly certain. There are always truths just beyond reach that would make sense of their lives, if they only know how to unlock them.

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