Dermot Bolger (born 1959) is an Irish novelist, playwright and poet born in Finglas, a suburb of Dublin. 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , Statistics Province: Leinster County: Dáil Éireann: Dublin Central, Dublin North Central, Dublin North East, Dublin North West, Dublin South Central, Dublin South East European Parliament: Dublin Dialling Code: 01, +353 1 Postal District(s): D1-24, D6W Area: 114. ...
His work is quite often concerned with the articulation of the experiences of working-class characters who, for various reasons, feel alienated from society. Bolger questions the relevance of traditional nationalist concepts of Irishness, arguing for a more plural and inclusive society.
La réécriture de l'histoire dans les Romans de Roddy Doyle, Dermot Bolger et Patrick McCabe by Alain Mouchel-Vallon (PhD thesis, 2005, Reims University, France). http://www.sudoc.abes.fr
The State of the Nation: Paradigms of Irishness in the Drama and Fiction of Dermot Bolger by Damien Shortt (PhD thesis, 2006, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland)
Ryan, Ray. Ireland and Scotland: Literature and Culture, State and Nation, 1966-2000. Oxford University Press, 2002.
Paschel, Ulrike: No mean city? : the image of Dublin in the novels of Dermot Bolger, Roddy Doyle and Val Mulkerns. - Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 1998. – X, 170 S. - (Aachen British and American studies ; 1). - ISBN 3-631-33530-X
Merriman, Vic: Staging contemporary Ireland : heartsickness and hopes deferred. In: The Cambridge companion to contemporary Irish drama / Shaun Richards, ed. - Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Pr., 2004 ; pp. 244-257 (On The lament for Arthur Cleary, 1989)
Murphy, Paul: Inside the immigrant mind : nostalgic versus nomadic subjectivities in late twentieth-century Irish drama. In: Australasian drama studies, 43 (2003, Oct), pp. 128-147 (On A Dublin quartet)
Tew, Philip: The lexicon of youth in Mac Laverty, Bolger, and Doyle : Theorizing contemporary Irish fiction via Lefebvre's Tenth Prelude. In: Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, 5:1 (1999), pp. 181-197
Harte, Liam: A kind of scab : Irish identity in the writings of Dermot Bolger and Joseph O'Connor. In: Irish studies review, 20 (1997 autumn), pp. 17-22
MacCarthy, Conor: Ideology and geography in Dermot Bolger's The Journey home. In: Irish university review: A journal of Irish studies, 27:1 (1997 Spring-Summer), pp. 98-110
Merriman, Vic: Centring the wanderer : Europe as active imaginary in contemporary Irish theatre. In: Irish university review: a journal of Irish studies, 27:1 (1997Spring-Summer), pp. 166-181 (On The Lament of Arthur Cleary)
Aragay, Mireia: Reading Dermot Bolger's The Holy Ground : national identity, gender and sexuality in post-colonial Ireland. In: Links and letters, 4 (1997), pp. 53-64
Turner, Tramble T.: Staging signs of gender. In: Semiotics 1994: Annual proceedings volumes of the Semiotic Society of America. 19 / John Deely (ed.) ... New York <NY> : Lang, 1995. pp. 335-344 (On The lament for Arthur Cleary, 1989)
Dantanus, Ulf.: Antæus in Dublin? In: Moderna språk (97:1) 2003, pp. 37-52.
Battaglia, Alberto.: Dublino: oltre Joyce. Milan: Unicopli, 2002. pp. 130. (Città letterarie.)
Dumay, Émile-Jean.: Dermot Bolger dramaturge. In: Études irlandaises (27:1) 2002, pp. 79-92.
MacCarthy, Conor.: Ideology and geography in Dermot Bolger's The Journey Home. In: Irish University Review (27:1) 1997, pp. 98-110.
Dumay, Émile-Jean.: La subversion de la nostalgie dans The Lament for Arthur Cleary de Dermot Bolger. In: Études irlandaises (21:2) 1996, pp. 111-23.
Fiérobe, Claude: Irlande et Europe 1990: The Journey Home de Dermot Bolger. In: Études irlandaises (19:2) 1994, pp. 41-49.
Kearney, Colbert: Dermot Bolger and the dual carriageway. In: Études irlandaises (19:2) 1994, pp. 25-39.
DermotBolger in a wonderfully entertaining speech, told the participants that they were all writers simply because they had the courage and talent to put pen to paper and enter the competition.
Dermot read a number of his own poems and treated the audience to a reading of an unpublished poem.
At the closing of the award ceremony when Dermot was thanked for his support for the event, he replied that he was delighted to be amongst people he regarded as colleagues.
DermotBolger's work, meanwhile, is generally exemplary of a bleakness of tone which typified much Irish literature of the 1980s; in that period during which "young Ireland went into a ferocious reaction against the older pieties, it seemed that no aspects of national tradition would be left unscathed" (Kiberd 609).
Bolger's use of verse, however, and his specific references to the imagery of the eighteenth-century poem, create a multigeneric and trans-historical version of the lament.
While in Bolger's poem, Arthur Cleary is something of a romantic antihero, "Unable to glance at a girl / Unless with drink or stoned" (Bolger, "Arthur Cleary" 20), in the original and conventionally female-centred lament, both Eibhlín and Airt's sister have sufficient agency to express their willingness to have died in Airt's stead.
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