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Patrick McCabe

April 2023

  • In the beginning …

    Top 10s
    Top 10 first lines in fiction

    The first words of a story have to do a lot of work in snaring the reader. Novelist Liz Nugent considers some of her favourites

April 2022

  • OFM Lunch With Pat McCabe illustration

    Lunch with...
    Patrick McCabe: ‘Even today you can walk into some Irish bars and be in a different dimension’

  • A shop selling contraceptives in 70s Soho.

    Book of the day
    Poguemahone by Patrick McCabe review – unquiet spirits

April 2020

  • Bog gothic … the 1997 film of Butcher Boy.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 Irish gothic novels

    From ancient terrors to modern horrors, authors from Oscar Wilde to Anna Burns have found in Ireland rich and genuinely scary storytelling terrain

April 2018

  • Patrick McCabe says Dublin media liberals could pay for snobbery towards rural Ireland

    Irish novelist warns of Brexit-style revolt against elite on abortion vote

    As referendum day nears, Patrick McCabe says Dublin media liberals could pay for snobbery towards rural Ireland

October 2014

  • To the Lighthouse book

    Tips, links and suggestions
    Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?

    Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them

October 2013

October 2010

  • Derry Men

    The Stray Sod Country by Patrick McCabe - review

    Joanna Briscoe relishes a tale of small-town life that paints a dark but jauntily amusing portrait of an era

February 2010

  • The Holy City by Patrick McCabe

    Patrick McCabe is on familiar, darkly comic territory with his tale of a man stuck in the 1960s, says James Purdon

January 2010

  • portrait of M Glenn Taylor

    The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart by M Glenn Taylor

    Patrick McCabe is captivated by M Glenn Taylor's debut novel, located in the badlands of West Virginia

January 2009

  • Troubles in the mind

    Review: The Holy City by Patrick McCabe
    Patrick McCabe's new novel lacks the urgency of The Butcher Boy, says Christopher Tayler

July 2008

  • Patrick McCabe

    "Being born, living and dying - it is mayhem, chaos and madness."

November 2006

  • The horror behind the blarney

  • The man from the mountains

September 2004

  • Paperback writer
    Ships and shadows and invisible men

    Voices overheard on the landing launched Patrick McCabe into a lonely private world.

August 2004

  • Bog Gothic

    Jane Perry on Call Me the Breeze by Patrick McCabe

September 2003

  • Here's to Ireland

    Patrick McCabe's humour in Call Me the Breeze disguises a tough treatise on the relationship between the artist and society, says CL Dallat

August 2003

  • Patrick McCabe

    King of Bog Gothic

    Inspired by comics and small-town life, Patrick McCabe was propelled into the literary limelight by his novel The Butcher Boy

January 2001

  • Germs, madness and murder

    Aisling Foster navigates Patrick McCabe's maze of black humour and Irish myths in Emerald Germs of Ireland

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