Dermot Bolger es un novelista irlandés cuya obra a menudo aborda las experiencias de personajes de clase trabajadora que se sienten alienados de la sociedad. Examina críticamente la relevancia de los conceptos nacionalistas tradicionales de la "irlandesidad", abogando por una sociedad más pluralista e inclusiva. La escritura de Bolger profundiza en la búsqueda de identidad y pertenencia en el mundo moderno, dando voz a aquellos que a menudo son pasados por alto.
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.
Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial James Joyce vivio en Zurich, dedicado por completo a la creacion del Ulises. En 1920 se traslado a Paris, donde termino y publico su obra en 1922. El titulo evoca al protagonista de la Odisea de Homero, cuyo hilo argumental es seguido por Joyce con un sentido ironico y burlesco. Esta nueva odisea esta protagonizada por un hombre de clase media, Leopold Bloom, que tiene que afrontar asuntos problematicos relacionados con la familia, la lglesia y el Estado a lo largo de 24 horas que dura el relato. Uno de los mayores logros de la novela es el monologo interior, tanto del personaje central (al estilo del examen de conciencia jesuitico) como de su esposa, Molly Bloom.
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.
Zeven vrouwen hebben een kamer geboekt in het sjiekste hotel van Dublin. Verhaal geschreven door zeven vrouwelijke Ierse auteurs.
