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]

The ghettoes sink deeper into despair while southside gobshites chatter inanely about the Celtic Tiger. —Gene Kerrigan[4]

List of works

Non-Fiction
Fiction

Awards

Dark Times in the City has been nominated for the CWA Gold Dagger at the 2009 Crime Thriller Awards.[5]

References

  1. Ireland: A Special Survey International Socialism, October 1976 (with Des Derwin, John Goodwillie, & Brian Trench).
  2. Flood, Alison (18 October 2012). "Irish author Gene Kerrigan wins Gold Dagger for crime novel of the year". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
  3. Stasio, Marilyn (3 January 2014). "You Wouldn't Want to Live There: USA Noir, and More". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
  4. Kerrigan's Ricorso database entry. Retrieved: 2010-10-01
  5. Allen, Kate (7 September 2009). "Coben, Cole, Atkinson vie for crime awards". The Bookseller. Retrieved 7 September 2009.

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