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1	Finbar's Hotel more books like this by Dermot Bolger The hotel has stood on Dublin's quays since the 1920s, but its glory days are over. Most of the guests and staff we meet are escaping from something. Their stories are told in different chapters by seven Irish writers, including Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright and Colm Toibin. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Ladies night at Finbar's Hotel more books like this by Dermot Bolger see all copies from £1.38! new only from £2.77! \| first editions
3	The Journey Home more books like this by Dermot Bolger A re-issue of a classic Bolger novel. 'The best novel about Dublin since Joyce' Irish Independent Francis Hanrahan, the shy child of grey suburban streets, is Francy at home to his country-born parents. But when he meets Shay, an older, wilder image of himself, he becomes Hano, and is cast out into the night-time world of Dublin - a world of all ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £6.87! \| first editions
4	The Family on Paradise Pier more books like this by Dermot Bolger This is 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 seem hardly touched by it - midnight swims, flower fairies and regatta parties form the ... see all copies from £1.98! new only from £2.03! \| first editions
5	Father's music more books like this by Dermot Bolger Tracey is a tough streetwise 22-year-old born to a middle-class English woman. All she knows about her father is his name, Eoin MacSweeney, and that he was a travelling fiddle-player from Donegal. When her mother dies, Lisa hears by chance that MacSweeney is still alive and sets off to find him. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £2.02! \| first editions
6	New Dubliners: Celebrating 100 Years of Joyce's Dubliners more books like this by Ivy Bannister, Maeve Binchy, Dermot Bolger Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the year in which Joyce penned his famous -collection, New Dubliners presents eleven deeply human, evocative stories set in the Irish capital, by such award-winning and leading Irish authors as Roddy Doyle, Colum McCann, Joseph O'Connor, Bernard MacLaverty, and Frank McGuinness. see all copies from £5.52! new only from £8.53!
7	The Vintage Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction more books like this by Dermot Bolger 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 literature of genuine global stature, as ancient as the Irish Sea. Contributors and stories include: John ... see all copies from £5.52! new only from £8.19! \| first editions
8	In High Germany more books like this by Dermot Bolger It is Euro 88 and the excitement is high for football fanatics Eoin, Shane and Mick. They are in Germany supporting the Irish team. For years they have dreamed of this - coming home from a foreign triumph like heroes. But emigration has meant that 'home' is no longer where the heart is. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £7.90! \| first editions
9	The Valparaiso voyage more books like this by Dermot Bolger This is the story of Brendan Brogan, who grew up in a small town outskirts of Dublin. An unhappy childhood leads to an unhappy adulthood. When circumstances offer Brogan a chance to fake his own death, he seizes the chance and runs - far away to Portugal. But no one can escape the past entirely. see all copies from £1.99! new only from £5.52!
10	Temptation more books like this by Dermot Bolger A marriage and a family reach breaking point on an annual holiday in the loveliest hotel in Ireland. Dermot Bolger is one of the leading figures on the Irish literary scene. Very influential, amazingly energetic and prolific, popular and extremely well respected. Temptation is his seventh novel. Flamingo published his sixth, Father's Music, in ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £5.96! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Emily's shoes more books like this by Dermot Bolger 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 Fellowship and the Sunday Tribune Arts Award. see all copies from £1.38! signed copies \| first editions
12	The New Hennessy Book of Irish Fiction more books like this by Dermot Bolger see all copies from £7.91! new only from £7.91!
13 view cover	Second life more books like this by Dermot Bolger Tackles a rather sensational Irish subject: the children of single mothers, who were adopted or given away. In this case, a successful young man, suffers a road accident, which leads him to investigate his past - taking him to the village where his biological mother grew up. see all copies from £1.98! first editions
14 view cover	The woman's daughter more books like this by Dermot Bolger Paperback re-issue of classic Bolger novel 'One of the essential Irish novels, certainly of the decade, and possibly of many another.' Sunday Tribune 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 -- a Victorian maid, ... see all copies from £2.45! first editions
15 view cover	Druids, Dudes and Beauty Queens: The Changing Face of Irish Theatre more books like this by Dermot Bolger (Editor) The current state of theatre in Ireland has never been better. A relatively young playwright, Marina Carr, was recently chosen by a select committee in Ireland as one of Ireland's ten best living writers, along with two other dramatists, Brian Friel and Tom Murphy. Add these to the names of other fine dramatists such as Martin McDonagh, Thomas ... see all copies from £10.44! new only from £14.15!
16 view cover	A Harvest: New, Rare and Uncollected Essays more books like this by Con Houlihan, Dermot Bolger Con Houlihan worked on the Irish Press and Evening Press for many years. A Harvest is a rich and eclectic collection in which the reader is more likely to come upon a piece on Gerard Manley Hopkins or Walt Whitman than one on Lester Piggot or world-championship boxing. Through the entire book, the luminous quality of the writing shines through. A ... see all copies from £12.23! new only from £12.23!
17 view cover	The Passion of Jerome more books like this by Dermot Bolger An ordinary man is forced to confront both his own demons and the manifestation of the supernatural beyond his comprehension and control Jeremy Furlong is a successful businessman, whose life has been carefully constructed from layer upon layer of lies. That is until now, when he is confronted by the trapped poltergeist spirit of a dead boy in the ... see all copies from £6.18! new only from £15.83! \| first editions
18 view cover	April Bright and Blinded by Th more books like this by Dermot Bolger Two full-length plays by one of Ireland's leading playwrights. April Bright is a stunning evocation of family life just after WW II, and Blinded by the Light is a frantic black farce about a man who just wants to be left to his own pedestrian entertainments ... until he opens his door to Mormon missionaries. see all copies from £3.05!
19	From These Green Heights more books like this by Dermot Bolger see all copies from £7.82! new only from £7.82! \| first editions
20 view cover	Night shift more books like this by Dermot Bolger Winner of the Macaulay Fellowship and the "Sunday Tribune" Arts Award in 1989, this novel is the author's first account of life in Dublin. see all copies from £1.98!
21 view cover	Taking My Letters Back: New and Selected Poems more books like this by Dermot Bolger Taking My Letters Back is a welcome and long overdue collection of new and previously published poems by Dermot Bolger. It combines a selection of the best of Bolger's early work (often in freshly worked versions), along with two dozen new poems written over the past decade which have never before been collected in book form. Books Ireland ... see all copies from £5.52!
22 view cover	Plays. 1 more books like this by Dermot Bolger The first collection of plays from one of Ireland's most accomplished contemporary writers This volume contains four plays: The Lament for Arthur Cleary: "Theatrically rich and socially powerful, it takes on the lineaments of an epic voyage, a voyage into the dark heart of a city where Irish theatre has seldom been before" (Irish Times); In High ... see all copies from £11.18!
23	A Dublin Bloom: An Original Free Adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses more books like this by Dermot Bolger, James Joyce see all copies from £9.97! new only from £43.15! \| signed copies
24 view cover	Picador Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction, more books like this by Dermot Bolger 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. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £19.69! \| first editions
25	Ireland in Exile: Irish Writers Abroad more books like this by Dermot Bolger, Joseph O'Connor see all copies from £29.66!

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