Written during the lockdown of 2020, Harry Crosbie writes short stories from the heart and will charm with tales of docklands life.
In this slim, attractive collection of short stories, Harry Crosbie colourfully describes life in Dublin in the 1960s. These funny and poignant pieces are told from the perspective of a teenage boy working in Dublin's docklands and illuminate an older Dublin that will be familiar to many readers. Written during the lockdown of 2020, writes from the heart and will charm and delight with tales of docklands life.
It'd be self-congratulating to say that if Crosbie-the-writer didn't exist, we'd have to invent him. It'd also be hopeless, because we couldn't do it. We couldn't manufacture a writer who knows all the weird, grainy and hilarious stuff Crosbie knows, & magically combine that with the civilized urge to set it all down for others' delectation. Mark Twain was that sort of writer. Ring Lardner was. Nelson Algren. It's heartening to know Crosbie's is not yet a dying art.
-- Richard FordHe is the man who turned a disused railway station into Ireland's biggest music venue which some of us still call The Point. But if Harry Crosbie has his way, he will also be remembered as a writer.
-- Des MacHale * The Irish Times *Harry Crosbie is best known as the developer who transformed Dublin and its music scene during the 1990s with the Point and Bord Gais theatres, Vicar Street and the docklands. Here he discovers a voice that will leave an equal mark on cultural memory.