Set in rural Ireland, against the background of the on-course gambling operating at the many local race meetings held throughout the country, this book combines the photographs of Bruce Gilden with the story-telling of Dermot Healy. It seeks to create a portrait of this aspect of rural Irish life.
Set in rural Ireland, against the background of the on-course gambling operating at the many local race meetings held throughout the country, this boo...
From Ireland s finest living novelist (Roddy Doyle) a funny, moving, exquisitely written novel about a community on the cusp of change
Acclaimed Irish author Dermot Healy s first novel in more than ten years is a rich, beguiling, and wonderfully funny story about community, family, love, and bonds across generations, an epic in miniature that features an unforgettable cast of innocents and broken eccentrics. The novel presents the bemusing and unsettling misadventures of Philip Feeney, known to one and all as Mister Psyche, a teenager haunted by a recent traumatic event who...
From Ireland s finest living novelist (Roddy Doyle) a funny, moving, exquisitely written novel about a community on the cusp of change
Although Dermot Healy (1947-2014) is probably best known as an award-winning novelist and poet, he was also a prolific playwright, screenwriter, and actor. Healy s interest in drama was long-standing, and was central to his development as a writer. Between 1985 and 2010 he wrote thirteen stage plays, including a critically-acclaimed adaptation of Garcia Lorca s
Blood Wedding in 1989. All of these plays are published here for the first time. One of the most striking features of Healy s dramatic works is their spirit of community collaboration and their strong social conscience. His first...
Although Dermot Healy (1947-2014) is probably best known as an award-winning novelist and poet, he was also a prolific playwright, screenwriter, an...
