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Gene Kerrigan is an Irish journalist and novelist who grew up in Cabra in Dublin. His works include political commentary on Ireland since the 1970s in such publications as Magill magazine and the Sunday Independent newspaper. He has also written about Ireland for International Socialism magazine.

His book The Rage won the 2012 Gold Dagger for the best crime novel of the year. Marilyn Stasio, in a 2014 review of Dark Times in the City, comments that Kerrigan "writes with a grim elegance".

The ghettoes sink deeper into despair while southside gobshites chatter inanely about the Celtic Tiger. —Gene Kerrigan

Kerrigan retired from his role as a regular columnist with the Sunday Independent in November 2023.

List of works

Non-Fiction

with Derek Dunne

with Derek Speirs

and Gill & Macmillan ISBN: 0-7171-3862-3

with Pat Brennan

Fiction

, also Random House (ISBN: 0-09-948895-7) and Europa (ISBN: 1-933372-43-5) , also Europa Editions (ISBN: 1-933372-26-5)

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