Dermot Bolger Livres

Sean Blake réchappe de justesse à un accident de voiture à la suite duquel il a été, pendant quelques secondes, déclaré cliniquement mort. A son réveil, bouleversé, Sean perçoit le monde tout à fait différemment, comme s'il débutait une nouvelle existence. Mais ce n'est pas la première fois que Sean voit sa vie modifiée. A six semaines, il a été retiré à sa mère, une jeune fille forcée par la société et l'Eglise de le laisser à l'adoption. Avec le sentiment d'être devenu étranger à sa femme et à ses deux enfants, et très certainement en premier lieu à lui-même, Sean décide de partir à la recherche de cette mère dont il ne sait rien. Avec beaucoup d'émotion et de sensibilité, Dermot Bolger nous entraîne dans une histoire particulière (déjà évoquée au cinéma dans le très émouvant Magdalene Sisters ), celle de ces adolescentes irlandaises rompues et humiliées, dont le malheur se répercuta sur les générations futures.

Dans une longue lettre qu'il écrit à son fils, le narrateur évoque l'incroyable année que fut pour lui 1988 : la veille de la demi-finale de l'Euro 88, que l'Irlande allait perdre, il apprenait que son amie était enceinte. Émigré de fraîche date en Allemagne, il savait qu'il ne rentrerait pas au pays, qu'il ne suivrait plus tous les matches de l'équipe irlandaise avec ses copains de toujours, et qu'il basculait définitivement dans l'âge adulte. A son fils de onze ans, mi-allemand, mi-irlandais, il raconte son enfance irlandaise, il dit la nostalgie de son pays, et la difficulté de vivre loin de ses racines. Également dans cet ouvrage : Le journal d'un poète, sélection de courts poèmes sur la vie quotidienne dans une petite bourgade irlandaise.

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.

This dazzling anthology, edited and introduced by Dermot Bolger, is a splendidly comprehensive and up-to-the-minute collection of the finest recent fiction from a nation of master storytellers. This collection of astonishing breadth reveals a literature of genuine global stature, as ancient as the Irish Sea.Contributors and stories John Banville, from Mefisto ; Leland Bardwell, "The Hairdresser"; Sebastian Barry, from The Engine of Owl-Light ; Mary Beckett, "Heaven"; Samuel Beckett, "For to End Yet Again"; Sara Berkeley, "The Sky's Gone Out"; Dermot Bolger, "The Journey Home"; Claire Boylan, "Villa Marta"; Shane Connaughton, "Ojus"; Mary Dorcey, "The Husband"; Roddy Doyle, from The Snapper ; Anne Enright, "Men and Angels"; Hugo Hamilton, from Surrogate City ; Dermot Healy, "The Death of Matti Bonner"; Aidan Higgins, from Balcony of Europe ; Desmond Hogan, from A Curious Street ; Jennifer Johnston, from The Christmas Tree ; Neil Jordan, "Last Rights"; Molly Kean, Patrick McCabe, from The Butcher Boy ; Brian Moore, "The Sight"; Edna O'Brien, "What a Sky"; William Trevor, "The Ballroom of Romance"; Val Mulkerns, "Memory and Desire"; Robert McLiam Wilson, from Ripley Bogle , and many more.

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.

A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, this work is a towering achievement of twentieth-century literature. The narrative unfolds over a single day in Dublin, focusing on Leopold Bloom, his friends Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus, and his wife Molly, among a vibrant cast of characters. Written between 1914 and 1921, it has withstood bowdlerization, legal challenges, and controversy. Joyce blends Celtic lyricism with raw vulgarity, showcasing ceaseless verbal inventiveness and a wide array of allusions, establishing it as a monumental exploration of the human condition. Declan Kiberd notes that it serves as "an endlessly open book of utopian epiphanies," reflecting on Dublin's colonial past while offering glimpses of a potentially redemptive future. This edition presents the standard text first published in 1960. Joyce, born in Dublin in 1882, left for Paris at twenty, rebelling against his upbringing. Though he returned briefly to Ireland, Dublin remained central to his major works. He lived in poverty for much of his life, facing personal challenges, including his daughter's mental illness. If you appreciated this novel, you might also enjoy Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, available in Penguin Classics.

A cast of seven Irish women writers have taken over the newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel for one memorable night . . .

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.

The hotel has stood on Dublin's quays since the 1920s, but its glory days are over. Most of the guests and staff we meet are escaping from something. Their stories are told in different chapters by seven Irish writers, including Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright and Colm Toibin.

Op een avond in 1995 logeren enkele uiteenlopende figuren in een verlopen hotel in Dublin. Geschreven door zeven Ierse auteurs, maar het is aan de lezer te raden wie wat schreef.