Dermot Healy

Dermot Healy obituary

Author and poet who wrote A Goat's Song, one of the great Irish novels of recent times

Sean O'Hagan

30, Jun, 2014 @5:25 PM

Dermot Healy, 'uncompromisingly brilliant' poet and novelist, dies aged 66

Tributes paid to Irish author acclaimed as a unique figure 'in the tradition of Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien'

Alison Flood

30, Jun, 2014 @11:04 AM

Dermot Healy: 'I try to stay out of it and let the reader take over'

Irish author Dermot Healy tells Sean O'Hagan how his latest novel was shaped largely by what he decided to leave out

Sean O'Hagan

02, Apr, 2011 @11:06 PM

Long Time, No See by Dermot Healy – review

Annie Proulx enjoys the fun and feuding of a small Irish village

Annie Proulx

01, Apr, 2011 @11:04 PM

Let the west of the world go by

John O'Mahony meets novelist Dermot Healy on a stony Atlantic shore

John O'Mahony

03, Jun, 2000 @12:25 AM

Maybe this, maybe that

It rarely behoves a critic to betray total ignorance, but during the interval of this play I had to come clean when two French women asked me what it was about, fearing themselves victims of a language barrier. But no, this new script by Dermot Healy deliberately hovers shy of subject, plot or even a coherent conversation, with a set of indeterminate Pirandelloesque "characters" who might or might not be wraiths in the frazzled memory of old Mr Staines. Staines prefaces the piece by wandering around in his underpants listening to an old Count John McCormack record.

30, Sep, 1999 @11:00 PM