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  1. 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.

  2. 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 ...

  3. 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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  4. Apr 2, 2022 · Books. Dermot Bolger: ‘These poems are the closest I’ll come to an autobiography’. The writer on how deserted lockdown streets gave him space to revisit the memories that sparked his...

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  5. Learn about Dermot Bolger, one of Ireland’s best-known writers, who has published fourteen novels, a collection of short stories, several plays and two poetry collections. Find out more about his works, awards and journalism on his official website.

  6. www.poetryireland.ie › education › writers-directoryDermot Bolger | Poetry Ireland

    Born in Finglas in 1959, Dermot Bolger is a poet, novelist and playwright. His thirteen novels include The Family on Paradise Pier, The Journey Home, and a book for young adults, New Town Soul, which has been a comparative choice on the Leaving Certificate.

  7. 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 ...