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.

Father's music

Literature & Fiction

DERMOT BOLGER

Literary

Flamingo/ HarperCollins

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. Dermot writes fast-paced, incredibly readable novels, usually with a thriller element, always about Ireland, more often than not about its Troubles. 'Temptation, is quite different. It is about family life. It describes five days in the lives of Alison, her husband Peadar and their three children, who are taking their annual holiday on the southeastern coast of Ireland. Each member of the family has his or her own hopes for the holiday and preoccupations about the lives they are briefly leaving behind. The holiday serves as a turning point in their lives, as Alison and Peadar,s marriage is put to the test and the vulnerabilities of their children are brought to the fore. Previous novels have always featured a female central character, and Dermot seems to love writing from a female perspective - and very good he is at it too. This new novel takes this strength and makes the most of it. Paciness and great readability are packed in there too.

Temptation

Flamingo

The Journey Home

<p>'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. 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 drugs, all-night drinking sessions in bars and snooker halls, and the stench of political corruption.</p>

Contemporary

The Family on Paradise Pier

Fourth Estate

Shortlisted, Finalist, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards, Fiction Category, 2008Young Francis Hanrahan dreams desperately of a life different from that of his country-born, suburban-living parents. On his first day at his first job Francis makes his first real friend. Shay, a would-be older brother, introduces "Hano" to Dublin's appealingly seedy after-hours bars and drug-fueled parties. They are joined by Cait, a troubled teenager who spends her days in a stupor. But the noir thrills of underground Dublin cannot conceal the unemployment, corruption, and violence strangling the city. The Plunkett brothers, masters of "the subtle everyday corruption on which a dynasty was built" will use the friends—with tragic results.Torn between his friends, his family, and his own ideals, Hano ultimately falls victim to these powerful forces and commits a heinous crime. He flees through the countryside with Cait, wondering, as he narrates the events that set him on this path, if there is a home at the end of it.Controversial for its gritty portrait of Dublin in the 1980s, The Journey Home is Dermot Bolger's unflinching look at the personal cost of social progress, and those, innocent or not, lost during the journey.

Penguin

The woman's daughter

Penguin??Books

Emily's Shoes

Penguin Books, Ltd.

This book includes four plays which have or will be performed in Dublin. The plays include "The Lament for Arthur Cleary", "The Tramway End", "The Journey Home" and "One Last White Horse". "The Lament for Arthur Cleary" is Dermot Bolger's prize-winning play which explores many of the same themes as "The Journey Home". "The Tramway End" was recently performed successfully in Dublin. "One Last White Horse" is due to be performed in Dublin by The Abbey Theatre company in September 1991.

A Dublin Quartet

Arts & Photography

Music

'The hotel has stood in Dublin's quays since the '20s, but its glory days have long since passed it by. It's decrepit now the haunt of weekend-breakers and tourists who don't know any better. Most of the guests and staff we meet are escaping from something ...The joy for the reader come from the ingenuity with which each successive writer picks up the baton, teasing unforeseen consequences from events in earlier chapters. The result is always funny and often profound' John O'Connell, Time Out 'Whoever is behind the middle-aged man facing his midlife crisis, a cat-napper trying to order an acceptable meal for his yowling victim or two sisters drunkenly disinterring their past, they all share a common sense of humour. That liking for witty one-liners, or for a contrariness which encourages a woman to tell a man picked up in the bar that she is a nun, is extremely funny' Aisling Foster, The Times 'Seven top-notch contributions and a genuine feeling of collective impulse ...the result is not merely a proper novel, seamlessly executed and with discernible themes and patterns, but a very good novel indeed ...The reader leaves Finbar's decaying premises enthusing over the state of modern Irish writing' D. J. Taylor, Spectator 'This is a very good work indeed ...You should check out or into Finbar's Hotel today' John Dunne, Books Ireland

Finbar's Hotel

Pan/Macmillan

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Father's music

Temptation

The Journey Home

The Family on Paradise Pier

The Journey Home

The woman's daughter

Emily's Shoes

The Journey Home

A Dublin Quartet

Finbar's Hotel