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]

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List of works

Non-Fiction

• Kerrigan, Gene (1984). Round Up the Usual Suspects: Nicky Kelly & the Cosgrave Coalition. Dublin: Magill Publications. ISBN 0-9507659-2-9. with Derek Dunne
• Kerrigan, Gene (1990). Nothing But the Truth. Dublin: Tomar Publishing. ISBN 1-871793-06-8.
• Kerrigan, Gene (1992). Goodbye to All That: A Souvenir of the Haughey Era. Dublin: Blackwater Press. ISBN 0-86121-374-2. with Derek Speirs
• Kerrigan, Gene (1993). Police Interrogation Endangers the Innocent, Chapter 1: The Anatomy of an Interrogation. Dublin: Irish Council for Civil Liberties. ISBN 0-9515425-2-4.
• Kerrigan, Gene (1995). Hard Cases: True Stories of Crime and Punishment. Virgin Books. ISBN 0-86369-890-5.
• Kerrigan, Gene (1995). Hard Cases: True Stories of Crime and Punishment. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. ISBN 0-7171-3862-3.
• Kerrigan, Gene (1998). Another Country: Growing Up in 50's Ireland. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. ISBN 0-7171-2745-1.
• Kerrigan, Gene (1999). This Great Little Nation: The A-Z of Irish Scandals and Controversies. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. ISBN 0-7171-2937-3. with Pat Brennan
• Kerrigan, Gene (2002). Never Make a Promise You Can't Break: How to Succeed in Irish Politics. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. ISBN 0-7171-3459-8.

Fiction

• Kerrigan, Gene (2005). Little Criminals. Vintage. ISBN 0-09-948149-9.
• Kerrigan, Gene (2005). Little Criminals. Random House. ISBN 0-09-948895-7.
• Kerrigan, Gene (2008). Little Criminals. Europa Editions. ISBN 1-933372-43-5.
• Kerrigan, Gene (2007). The Midnight Choir. Europa Editions. ISBN 1-933372-26-5.
• Kerrigan, Gene (2007). The Midnight Choir. Vintage. ISBN 0-09-948376-9.
• Kerrigan, Gene (2009). Dark Times in the City. Harvill Secker. ISBN 1-84655-255-9.
• Kerrigan, Gene (2011). The Rage. Harvill Secker. ISBN 1-84655-256-7.

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.

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