Dermot Bolger felt strange portraying himself in his latest novel but, he tells Sue Leonard, it was a necessary bridge into his second novel about the extraordinary Sheila Fitzgerald

FINGLAS native and quintessential Dub, Dermot Bolger, has dedicated his life to literature in both a public and a private manner. 

Dermot Bolger talks to Tony Clayton-Lea about his new book Tanglewood and how he believes that the introduction of free secondary education in the late 1960s was at the root of the 1980s burst of Irish creativity.

Michael O’Loughlin was born in Dublin. For many years he lived in Holland, but he returned home to settle down several years ago. He has published five collections with Raven Arts Press and New Island Books. He will read next month at the Cork Spring Poetry Festival.