WRITERS and WORKS (in alphabetical order):

Various Artists - Finbar' s Hotel, 1997
Conceived by Dermot Bolger and written by seven among the best contemporary Irish writers (Bolger, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Hugo Hamilton, Jennifer Johnston, Joseph O' Connor, Colm Tóibín), it is a collage of stories set in rooms of a hotel in Dublin.

John Banville - Ghosts, 1993

Dermot Bolger - The Journey Home, 1990
The modern Dublin in its darker aspects: political corruption, drug, violence and unemployment, everything permeated by a strong sense of desperation.

Christy Brown - Down all the days
Describes the energy that animated Dublin in a less recent age.

Christy Brown - My left foot
Book on which the homonymous 1989 movie by Jim Sheridan with Daniel Day Lewis is based.

Gerry Conlon - Proved innocent
It tells the story of the Guildford Four, four boys unjustly condemned to years of prison for a bomb burst in Great Britain through the action of IRA. The 1993 movie In the name of the Father, directed by Jim Sheridan, with Daniel Day Lewis and Emma Thompson, is based on this novel.

Seamus Deane - Reading in the dark, 1996
It's the diary of a 10 years old child who lives in Derry between 1940s and 1950s during the continuous political conflicts.

J.P. Donleavy - The Ginger Man
It's a journey in the Irish capital from the Trinity College's point of view.

Brian Friel - Dancing at Lughnasa, 1990
Novel set in a village in the desolate Donegal. From this book the 1998 movie directed by Pat O' Connor with Meryl Streep.

Oliver St. John Gogarty - As I was going down Sackville street, 1937
From the writer who Joyce describes in his Ulysses as the personage of Buck Mulligan, a keen vision of Dublin.

Patrick Kavanagh - Ploughman and other verse poems, 1936
Splendid poems that resume tones and cadences of the Irish folk songs.

Patrick Kavanagh - Tarry Flynn, 1949
Novel in which he describes the Irish countryside and the life of its peasants with affectionate humour.

Bernard MacLaverty - Cal, 1983
Set in Belfast at the end of 70s it tells about the listless militant of IRA, Cal, that with Marcella tries to tear the veil of violence and submission that lie heavy on them. From this book the homonymous 1984 movie by Pat O' Connor with John Lynch (Music by Mark Knopfler).

Patrick McCabe - The Butcher boy, 1992
This book has won The Irish Times Prize in 1992. From this book the homonymous 1997 movie directed by Neil Jordan with Guilty Stephen.

Michael McLaverty - Call my Brother Back
How to grow up in Falls road and Rathlin Island in Belfast during 20s.

Brian Moore - Lies of silence
Still Ireland and its turbulent political situation in this book that was candidate to the Booker Prize.

Liam O'Flaherty - The Informer, 1925
It describes the Irish divisions during the fight for independence and the consequent civil war.

Glenn Patterson - Fat lad, 1992
A funny book where the political situation makes background to a history that describes the life of today's Belfast.

Tom Paulin - The Strange Museum
Memorable poems about Northern Ireland.

Bobby Sands - One day in my life, 1982
The diary of an IRA militant, Bobby Sands, kept in the jail of Long Kesh and died in 1981 after 66 days of hunger strike.

Colm Tóibín - The South, 1990

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