Joseph O'Connor

Yeats is Dead begins with Roddy Doyle and ends with Frank McCourt. In between, thirteen other Irish writers spin an increasingly elaborate tale of murder, mayhem and literary shenanigans in present-day Dublin.

From the bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay, a novel of epic power, ferocious grit, indomitable resolve, and shattering romance, set in a savage and lawless Western Territory in the aftermath of the Civil War. 1865--the Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the Irish famine-ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, a daughter of its journey, Eliza Duane Mooney, sets out on foot from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, crossing a ravaged continent on a quest. Eliza is searching for a young boy she has not seen in four years, one of the hundred thousand children drawn into the war. His fate has been mysterious and will prove extraordinary. It is a walk that will have consequences for many seemingly unconnected survivors: the stunning intellectual Lucia-Cruz McLelland, who deserts New York City to cast her fate with mercurial hero James Con O'Keeffe--convict, revolutionary, and commander of a brigade of Irish immigrants in the Union Army turned governor of the desolate Western township of Redemption Falls; rebel guerilla Cole McLaurenson, who fuels his own gruesome Westward mission with the blind rage of an outlaw; and runaway slave Elizabeth Longstreet, who turns resentment into grace in a Western wilderness where nothing is as it seems. Redemption Falls is a Dickensian tale of war and forgiveness, of strangers in a strange land, of love put to the ultimate test. Packed with music, poetry, and storytelling, this is "a vivid mosaic of a vast country driven wild by war" (Irish Independent) and a riveting tale of urgent contemporary resonance.

All alone, with only his electric guitar and his overactive ego for company, Eddie Virago, proud owner of the last mohican haircut in Dublin, leaves his home town to find fame in the wild world of the London rock scene.

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O'Connor shares his insights into an array of universal topics, such as: Interpersonal Communication: On successful chat-up lines; Literature: There's One Yawn Every Minute [On book awards]; Women's Studies: The Irish Male -- A User's Manual; International Book Fairs: Fondling Foreigners in Frankfurt; Nutritional Science: Tongue-Fu for Beginners - Food and Sex; British Geography: The Beautiful Norf [Exploring Finsbury]. So join the Irish Male's on his final heart-stopping ride towards the dawn of the new cyberia. Because God knows -- he needs your company.

From the bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay, 'a powerful, moving adventure of raw fate and betrayed love' (Independent on Sunday). Inspector Martin Aitken's life is a mess.

From the bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay, a thrilling novel about a father who takes the law into his own hands. 'Gripping and moving...a taut, expertly crafted plot' GuardianDublin, June 1995: the hottest summer since records began.

A wonderfully comic play from one of Dublin's best writers In her home in Dublin, Moya is preparing for the funeral mass of her husband, Enda. From England and America her children are returning for the sombre occasion. But as the ghosts of the Doyle's past begin to materialise, the consequences are both profoundly disturbing and memorably comic... Joseph O'Connor's previous work includes two highly acclaimed and bestselling novels, Cowboys and Indians and Desperadoes; an anthology of short stories, True Believers; and a hilarious collection of journalism, The Secret World of the Irish Male, which spent three months at number one on the Irish bestseller list.