Gene Kerrigan is an Irish journalist and novelist who grew up in Cabra in Dublin. His works include political commentary on Ireland since the 1970s in such publications as Magill magazine and the Sunday Independent newspaper. He has also written about Ireland for International Socialism magazine. [1]
His book The Rage won the 2012 Gold Dagger for the best crime novel of the year. [2] Marilyn Stasio, in a 2014 review of Dark Times in the City, comments that Kerrigan "writes with a grim elegance". [3]
The ghettoes sink deeper into despair while southside gobshites chatter inanely about the Celtic Tiger. —Gene Kerrigan [4]
Kerrigan retired from his role as a regular columnist with the Sunday Independent in November 2023. [5]
Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter.
Martyn Turner is an English-born Irish political cartoonist, caricaturist and writer, working for the Irish Times since 1971. His cartoons appear four times a week in the newspaper, parodying current events.
Paul Durcan is a contemporary Irish poet.
Eoghan Corry is an Irish journalist and author. He is the lead commentator on travel for media in Ireland, having edited travel sections in national newspapers and travel publications since the 1980s. A former sportswriter and sports editor he has written books on sports history, and was founding story-editor of the Gaelic Athletic Association Museum at Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland.
Nassau Street is a street in central Dublin, running along the south side of Trinity College. It goes from Grafton Street in the west to the junction of South Leinster Street and Kildare Street in the east.
Dawson Street is a street on the southern side of central Dublin, running from St Stephen's Green to the walls of Trinity College Dublin. It is the site of the residence of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, the Mansion House.
Baggot Street is a street in Dublin, Ireland.
Kildare Street is a street in Dublin, Ireland.
Fishamble Street is a street in Dublin, Ireland within the old city walls.
Bernard Share (1930-2013) was an Irish novelist, critic, editor, and lecturer on modern literature. His novels include Inish and Transit. He also wrote an account of World-War-II-era Irish life, titled The Emergency, and has published works on slang and notable quotations. Several of his works have been reissued by Dalkey Archive Press, as part of the John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series.
The North Circular Road, designated as the R101 regional road, is an important thoroughfare on the northside of Dublin, in Ireland. It is the northside equivalent of the South Circular Road.
León Ó Broin was an Irish civil servant, known as a writer and playwright. He wrote many plays, stories and historical works in both Irish and English.
The chronology of the Great Famine documents a period of Irish history between 29 November 1845 and 1852 during which time the population of Ireland was reduced by 20 to 25 percent. The proximate cause was famine resulting from a potato disease commonly known as late blight. Although blight ravaged potato crops throughout Europe during the 1840s, the impact and human cost in Ireland – where a third of the population was entirely dependent on the potato for food but which also produced an abundance of other food – was exacerbated by a host of political, social and economic factors which remain the subject of historical debate.
Marlborough Street is a street in the city centre of Dublin, Ireland.
Envoy, A Review of Literature and Art was a magazine published in Dublin, Ireland, from December 1949 to July 1951. It was founded and edited by John Ryan.
Stuart Neville is a Northern Irish author best known for his novel The Twelve or, as it is known in the United States, The Ghosts of Belfast. He was born and grew up in Armagh, Northern Ireland.
The Barrow Way is a long-distance trail in Ireland. It is 100 kilometres long and begins in Robertstown, County Kildare and ends in St Mullin's, County Carlow, following the course of the River Barrow and the Barrow Line of the Grand Canal through counties Kildare, Carlow, Kilkenny and Laois. It is typically completed in four days. It is designated as a National Waymarked Trail by the National Trails Office of the Irish Sports Council and is managed by Waterways Ireland.
Tony Humphreys is an Irish educator, a consultant clinical psychologist, the founder of the Relationship Mentoring modality of Psychotherapy and the author of eleven self-help books translated into 15 languages and available in 28 countries. They notably include A Different Kind of Teacher, Self-esteem: the Key to your Child's Future (1995), The Power of "Negative" Thinking (1996), Children Feeling Good (1998) and ‘'Relationship, Relationship, Relationship: The Heart of a Mature Society'’ (2010).
High Street is a street in the medieval area of Dublin, Ireland.