“ Ridgway’s scintillating and dreamlike latest teems with big ideas about the complex legacy of the Troubles in a country transformed by immigration and wealth…a bracing and singular state-of-the-nation novel .” Publishers Weekly
An unravelling, an impossibility, a gathering of voices and a single dream, Dooneen is a layered, allusive and wildly original new novel. Bartholomew Port, known to all as Mew, steps into the bushes in a London park and steps out of the bushes in a Dublin one. But this suspiciously timeless Dublin is alive with song, ghosts, and an unmistakable sense of insurgency.
Keith Ridgway is the author of The Long Falling , which won both the 2001 Prix Femina Etranger and Premier Roman Etranger. His collection of stories Standard Time won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His second novel, The Parts , alongside his novella, Horses , was short-listed for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award 2003. His novel A Shock was shortlisted for the 2021 Goldsmith Prize and was awarded the 2022 James Tait Black Prize for Fiction.
In conversation with Eoin Sweeney.