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Eureka Street
Romantic Ireland is definitely dead and gone. With the exhilarating Eureka Street, Robert McLiam Wilson cheerfully and obscenely sends it to its grave. Jake Jackson, his thoughtful anti-hero, finds Belfast's tragedies are built on comedy: Catholics and Protestants so intent on declaring their differences "resembled no one now as much as they resembled each other…. That was what I liked about Belfast hatred. It was a lumbering hatred that could survive completely on the memories of things that never existed in the first place." He spends a certain amount of time worrying about seeming too Catholic and an equal amount worrying about not seeming sufficiently Catholic. Sometimes, after several...
Ripley Bogle
A young man without a future flees Northern Ireland to find that England is no panacea. Although there is less violence and more work, he is among foreigners, they don't like him and he doesn't like them.
The Dispossessed
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Manfred's Pain
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Eureka Street
Belfast, in the six months just before and after the ceasefire. Chuckie Lurgan - fat, Protestant and poor, suddenly becomes wealthy by various means; Jake Jackson - reformed tough guy - is looking for love; and the strange letters OTG appear all over the city to the ignorance of all.
Wilder Mann
The transformation of man to beast is a central aspect of traditional pagan rituals that are centuries old and which celebrate the seasonal cycle, fertility, life and death.
Fat Lad
When Drew Linden's new job brings him back to his native Belfast, he is determined to remain distant from everything that once tied him there, including his friends and family. But as three of generation of family history unfold, it becomes clear that the past Drew has been running from is the very thing he needs to face.
Sub-versions
From Swift's repulsive shit-flinging Yahoos to Beckett's dying but never quite dead moribunds, Irish literature has long been perceived as being synonymous with subversion and all forms of subversiveness. But what constitutes a subversive text or a subversive writer in twenty-first-century Ireland? The essays in this volume set out to redefine and rethink the subversive potential of modern Irish literature. Crossing three central genres, one common denominator running through these essays whether dealing with canonical writers like Yeats, Beckett and Flann O'Brien, or lesser known contemporary writers like Sebastian Barry or Robert McLiam Wilson, is the continual questioning of Irish identit...
The Third Party
Breakfast in a hotel, a stroll through town, take in a visitor attraction or two, then it's off to a sales conference, followed by dinner and bed ... what could be more routine in the life of a travelling businessman? past. And who is the mysterious Ike, a fellow traveller from Belfast, who just happens to be in Japan to give a reading from his new book at the university on the edge of town? The Third Party is a knowing and powerful exploration of death, guilt and the legacies of war. This is a mesmerising and dreamlike novel, bristling with taut psychological energy, a surreal journey where old and new, and east and west collide - a journey to the bitter end; an end that has already begun.
The Steward of Christendom
THE STORY: The fifth play in a cycle of plays about the author's Irish family, THE STEWARD OF CHRISTENDOM is a freely imagined portrait of the author's great-grandfather, Thomas Dunne, the last Chief Superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan Police
