Gene Kerrigan
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]
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The ghettoes sink deeper into despair while southside gobshites chatter inanely about the Celtic Tiger. —Gene Kerrigan[4]
List of works
- Non-Fiction
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- Fiction
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Awards
Dark Times in the City has been nominated for the CWA Gold Dagger at the 2009 Crime Thriller Awards.[5]
References
- ↑ Ireland: A Special Survey International Socialism, October 1976 (with Des Derwin, John Goodwillie, & Brian Trench).
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External links
- Gene Kerrigan at the Sunday Independent
- Police Interrogation Endangers the Innocent PDF format, 290 KB
- Kerrigan's entry at Ricorso, the Irish writers' database
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