Dooneen
First published 2026
Reception
- 2026
- 2026
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The Future is the Past is the Future in “Dooneen”
Keith Ridgway’s novel Dooneen follows writer Bartholomew “Mew” Port, a Dubliner returning home to participate in a literary festival, where he instead finds himself in the midst of a great rebellion. Having left his love, Mahmoud, back in London, Port’s mind constantly returns to “Mootie” as both…
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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. Not only that—there are no cars; there are moving footpaths; there is no church; everything seems quite queer. Home by invitation, he has arrived in a Dublin that is alive with song, with rumor, with tunnels, with ghosts, and with an unmistakable sense of insurgency. In this suspiciously timeless city that breathes an old revolutionary air, Mew fiercely misses his beloved Mootie, back home in London.
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Catalogue record
New Directions Publishing · 304 pages
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN
- 978-0-8112-4046-8
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- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN
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- 978-0-8112-4046-8
- Author
- Ridgway, Keith
- Statement
- Dooneen / Keith Ridgway.
- Records
- Open Library