Dermot Bolger is een Ierse romanschrijver wiens werk vaak de ervaringen van personages uit de arbeidersklasse behandelt die zich vervreemd voelen van de samenleving. Hij onderzoekt kritisch de relevantie van traditionele nationalistische concepten van "Iers-zijn", en pleit voor een meer pluralistische en inclusieve samenleving. Bolgers schrijven duikt in de zoektocht naar identiteit en verbondenheid in de moderne wereld, en geeft stem aan degenen die vaak over het hoofd worden gezien.
Set in 1941, the narrative unfolds within the confines of Grangegorman Mental Hospital, where the lives of four individuals intersect. Each character grapples with the profound impacts of war, betrayal, and personal trauma, revealing the deep scars that conflict leaves on the human psyche. Their stories intertwine, exploring themes of resilience and the quest for healing amidst a backdrop of historical turmoil.
This is Dermot Bolger's latest poetry collection. Every night during a year of the recent Covid 19 lockdown Bolger took long walks through the streets of Dublin. During these walks he allowed his imagination free rein and these resulting poems revisit central events during his life and also reflect upon the lives of others.
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.
Tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W B Yeats, T S Eliot and Ernest Hemingway.
A spellbinding novel based on a real-life rescue in 1943, when the crew of a neutral Irish ship rescued 168 drowning German sailors. A story of romance and war, where every experience is intense and dangerous.
The groundbreaking first modern novel to address the scandal of Irish Magdalene laundries when it was first published.
Eoin vypráví synovi příběh mistrovství Evropy v kopané, které v roce 1988 hostilo Německo. Pro fotbalové nadšence jako Eoin, Shane a Mick, kteří našli nový domov za hranicemi Irska, představuje tento fotbalový svátek velkolepou událost. Opět mají příležitost prožívat spolu vítězství a prohry národního teamu. Pro tři přátelé už není domovem ostrov, kde se narodili a kde kdysi vyrostli. Domov je všude tam, kde irské národní mužstvo svádí boj o vítězství. Než zazní poslední hvizd, čeká je ještě mnoho zážitků.
R240030269. TENTATION.. 2002. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 269 pages.. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 840-Littératures des langues romanes. Littérature française
