Dermot Bolger

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Dermot Bolger (born February 6, 1959 in Dublin ) is an Irish writer , editor and publisher . In addition to his literary activities, he has been one of the most important inspirers in Irish cultural life since the late 1970s.

life and work

Bolger was born in 1959 in Finglas in the north of Dublin, which at that time was still a suburb of Dublin with a more proletarian character. The experiences and feelings of workers are also at the center of some of his works. Bolger attended Beneavin College, a Catholic De La Salle boys' school in Finglas, and then worked as a factory worker. Between 1979 and 1984 he worked in a library . Encouraged by the poet Anthony Cronin , Bolger founded the Raven Arts Press at the age of 17 in 1977 , which was to develop into an important alternative publisher for new Irish poetry and prose as well as a 'motor' in the Irish cultural scene, and published his there own and foreign poems; from 1979 to 1992 he was its director.

With Raven Arts, Bolger was also active in the cultural life of Ireland, with the support of the Arts Council of Ireland a . a. organized the 'Encounter with Poetry' in the school system to bring the work of contemporary poets to Irish schools, as he also organized arts festivals in Finglas.

Bolger's own, ever-increasing literary productivity led to the closure of the Raven Arts Press in 1992, but in 1992 he founded " New Island Books" in Dublin for this purpose , a publishing house for poetry and dramatic literature, which to this day successfully publishes Irish writers as well as the Raven Arts Press promotes as yet unknown contemporary writers.

Since 1980 Bolger has produced his own extensive lyrical and dramatic work as well as several novels. In addition, he was and is often active as an editor, also outside of his own publishing houses. He is a member of Aosdána and lives in Dublin.

Awards (selection)

  • 1986 Æ Memorial Award
  • 1990 Samuel Beckett Award
  • 1990 Stewart Parker BBC Award

Works (selection)

Novels

  • Night Shift (1982)
  • The Woman's Daughter (1987, rev. And expanded 1991)
  • The Journey Home (1990)
  • Emily's Shoes (1992)
  • A Second Life (1994)
  • Father's Music (1997)
  • Temptation (2000)
  • The Valparaiso Voyage (2001)
  • The Family on Paradise Pier (2005)
  • New Town Soul (2010)
  • Second life: a renewed novel (2010)
  • The Fall of Ireland (2012)
  • Tanglewood (2015)
  • The Lonely Sea and Sky (2016)

Dramas

  • The Lament for Arthur Cleary (1989)
  • Blinded by the Light (1990)
  • In High Germany (1990)
  • The Holy Ground (1990)
  • One Last White Horse (1991)
  • A Dublin Bloom (1994)
  • April Bright (1995)
  • The Passion of Jerome (1999)
  • Consenting Adults (2000)
  • From These Green Heights (2004)
  • The Townlands of Brazil (2006)
  • Walking the Road (2007)
  • Ranelagh Bus (2007)
  • The Consequences of Lightning (2008)

Poetry

  • The Habit of Flesh (1980)
  • Finglas Lillies (1981)
  • No Waiting America (1982)
  • Internal Exiles (1986)
  • Leinster Street Ghosts (1989)
  • Taking My Letters Back (1998)
  • The Chosen Moment (2004)
  • External Affairs (2008)
  • The Venice Suite. A Voyage Through Loss (2012)
  • That Which is Suddenly Precious: New & Selected Poems (2015)

Editing

  • Suburban Poetry , magazine of the Finglas Writer's Workshop (from 1977)
  • Invisible Dublin (1985)
  • A Bright Wave / AnTonn Gheal (1989)
  • The Picador Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction (1993), ISBN 9780330326162
  • Ireland In Exile (1993)
  • Letters from The New Island (1995)
  • Finbar's Hotel (1997) - a "novel" about a night in a hotel in Dublin with unsigned texts by Bolger, Doyle , Enright , Hamilton , Johnston , O'Connor and Tóibín .
  • Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel (1999; Sequel to Finbar's Hotel )
  • The New Hennessy Book of Irish Fiction (2005)
  • County Lines: A Portrait of Life in South Dublin County (2006)
  • The Ledwidge Treasury: Selected Poems of Francis Ledwidge (2007)

Bolger also wrote several film scripts.

Works in German

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dermot Bolger Biography on biography.jrank.org (accessed February 4, 2009)
  2. ↑ Dermot Bolger: Life on pgil-eirdata.org (accessed February 4, 2009)
  3. ^ Archive of the Raven Arts Press at the University of Delaware Library ( February 18, 2007 memento in the Internet Archive ) (accessed February 4, 2009)
  4. ↑ New Island - About Us on newisland.ie ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed February 4, 2009)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.newisland.ie
  5. ^ Dermot Bolger on Irish Writers Online ( memento of March 5, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed February 4, 2009)
  6. ↑ Review / Interview of “The Family on Paradise Pier” on Three Monkeys Online (accessed February 4, 2009)
  7. ↑ Bolger, Dermot on newisland.ie ( Memento of December 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed February 4, 2009)
personal data
SURNAME Bolger, Dermot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish writer, editor and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Finglas , Dublin , Ireland