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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    November 1995
  • Latest Book:
    December 2016
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Book List in Order: 7 titles



  • In a wind-battered Mayo cottage, playwright Jack Ferris tries to salvage something from his broken love affair with Catherine Adams. Drink and despair drove her away; can his imagination call her back? But as he summons up her past, Jack finds he has...



  • Ollie Wing is barely surviving. Back home in Sligo, he collects trolleys in a supermarket car park and lives in a run-down house with a group of art students. He can't escape what has happened in London and is tormented by old fears and regrets. ...



  • Celebrated Irish author Dermot Healy’s first novel in more than ten years is a rich, beguiling, compassionate, and wonderfully funny story about community, family, love, and bonds across generations. Set in an isolated coastal town in northwest ...



  • Like many of the great Irish writers before him, Dermot Healy first announced himself as a writer of intricate and innovative short stories. Healy’s stories are set in small-town Ireland and its rural environs, and in the equally suffocating confin...



  • Initially published in 1984, Dermot Healy’s stunning first novel, Fighting with Shadows, returns to print after almost thirty years. Largely set in the border village of Fanacross, Co. Fermanagh, as Ireland stumbles clumsily toward modernity, the A...



  • Although Dermot Healy (1947-2014) is probably best known as an award-winning novelist and poet, he was also a prolific playwright, screenwriter, and actor. Healy’s interest in drama was long-standing, and was central to his development as a writ...



  • Sorrow never travels far from home. Dermot Healy’s death in the summer of 2014 reverberated deeply and far. Yet for all the admiration his work accrued he suffered something of the fate of those who abound in talents. Was he a poet? A novelist? A...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dermot Healy has published 7 books.

Dermot Healy does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Travels of Sorrow, was published in December 2016.

The first book by Dermot Healy, A Goat's Song, was published in November 1995.

No. Dermot Healy does not write books in series.