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Dermot Bolger (born 1959) is an Irish novelist, playwright, poet and editor from Dublin, Ireland. Born in the Finglas suburb of Dublin in 1959, [1] his older sister is the writer June Considine.
Dermot Bolger. Between 1990 and 2005 Dermot Bolger published ten novels in Britain with Penguin and HarperCollins, starting with his controversial portrayal of life for young Dubliners in The Journey Home and ending with The Family on Paradise Pier, which followed a real-life Irish family whose passion for communism took them from a privileged ...
Dermot Bolger is an Irish novelist, playwright and poet born in Finglas, a suburb of Dublin. His work is often concerned with the articulation of the experiences of working-class characters who, for various reasons, feel alienated from society.
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Dermot Bolger is one of the most remarkable products of Ireland's institution of universal secondary education in 1968, which produced a wider population of readers and writers of fiction independent of the universities and, arguably, the necessary number for a national audience for a national literature apart from the imaginative needs of ...
Dermot Bolger is a renowned Irish poet, playwright, and novelist with over 45 works to his name. In his writing, he concerns himself with the Irish middle class and the struggles many face trying to understand the relevance of traditional national identity. Bolger’s characters often mirror his desire for a more inclusive society.
Jul 19, 2018 · Dermot Bolger is a stalwart of the Irish literary scene, having written numerous novels and plays since the mid-1980s. These include his recent successes Tanglewood, a microscopic look at the Irish property boom of 00s, and The Lonely Sea and Sky, a coming of age novel set against the backdrop of World War II.
Sep 21, 2020 · Dermot Bolger writes for Culture about the long road taken to the publication of his first short story collection, Secrets Never Told, and his first steps upon a life-long literary journey.
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