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The Death and Resurrection of Mr. Roche(Updated)
(Gallery Books)
by Thomas Kilroy
Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2003 by Gallery Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-85235-333-9, ISBN: 1-85235-333-3

"The Death and Resurrection of Mr Roche was rejected by the Abbey Theatre but was the controversial 'hit' of the 1968 Dublin Theatre Festival. It enjoyed further success in London, on radio and television and in translation."

The Death and Resurrection of Mr. Roche(Updated)
(Gallery Books)
by Thomas Kilroy
Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 2002 by Gallery Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-85235-334-6, ISBN: 1-85235-334-1

"A night of drinking by a group of "lads" that soon degenerates into an episode of queer-bashing."

My Scandalous Life(Updated)
by Thomas Kilroy
Hardcover, 48 Pages, Published 2004 by Gallery Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-85235-379-7, ISBN: 1-85235-379-1

The Seagull(Updated)
(Gallery Books)
by Thomas Kilroy, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 1999 by Gallery Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-85235-120-5, ISBN: 1-85235-120-9

"In this free adaptation of Chekhov's classic Thomas Kilroy transposes the action from provincial Russia to the West of Ireland in the late nineteenth century. Like all successful adaptations it is both an original work as well as a tribute to its source. The characterization, the plot, and the central story of doomed love and artistic hopes, remain very much Chekhov's. In his drawing upon Irish history, the decline of the Anglo-Irish es ..."

Talbot's Box(Updated)
(Gallery Books)
by Thomas Kilroy
Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 1998 by Gallery Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-85235-198-4, ISBN: 1-85235-198-5

"Matt Talbot, the workers' saint (1856-1925) provokes Thomas Kilroy's ingenious examination of the idea of sanctity in the modern world. The very incorporation of penance and spiritual search, his conversion from alcoholism to prayer, fasting and self-mortification is sketched in the textured resonances of the idiom of the Dublin streets and in the soaring lyrical versions of his final visions. Talbot's Box achieves, as the author notes ..."

Double cross(Updated)
(Gallery books)
by Thomas Kilroy
Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 1994 by The Gallery Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-85235-148-9, ISBN: 1-85235-148-9

"Kilroy shows, as through a prism, episodes in the lives of Brendan Bracken and William Joyce, including their relationship with Ireland and their conceptions of Britain and Germany in World War II. How these antagonists, given a choice by ..."

In a Cafe(Updated)
Selected Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Mary Lavin, Elizabeth Walsh Peavoy, Thomas Kilroy
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1999 by Penguin Classics
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-118040-3, ISBN: 0-14-118040-4

"On an island teeming with masters of the short story, Mary Lavin's distinct voice and devoted following set her apart. Before her death in 1996, this Irish writer had received many honors and prizes not only for her luminous short stories but also for several highly regarded novels. William Trevor praised Lavin's ability to "make moments timeless, to illuminate people and places, words and things, by touching them with the magic of the ..."

Big Chapel by Kilroy Thomas Paperback Book The Fast(Updated)
by Thomas Kilroy
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1973 by Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-0-330-23551-8, ISBN: 0-330-23551-6