Dermot Bolger Biography and latest books by Dermot Bolger

Dermot Bolger is an Irish novelist, playwright, and poet. His novels are Night Shift, The Journey Home, The Family on Paradise Pier, Father\'s Music, The Woman’s Daughter, Emily’s Shoes, A Second Life, Temptation, The Valparaiso Voyage, and New Town Soul. His plays include The Lament for Arthur Cleary, Blinded by the Light, In High Germany, The Holy Ground, One Last White Horse, A Dublin Bloom, April Bright, The Passion of Jerome, Consenting Adults, From these Green Heights, The Townlands of Brazil, Walking the Road, The Consequences of Lightning, The Parting Glass, and Tea Chests and Dreams. His poetry collections include The Habit of Flesh, Finglas Lilies, No Waiting America, Internal Exiles, Leinster Street Ghosts, Taking my Letters Back: New and Selected Poems, The Chosen Moment, and External Affairs. His writings reflect the alienation that people from the working classes feel.

Dermot Bolger has worked as a publisher founding the Raven Arts Press and co-founding the New Island Press. He has edited The Picador Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction.