Undernose Farm Revisited: Many gems to be found in Crosbie collection

The developer turned author writes affectionately about his home town of Dublin and the docklands with its wealth of characters and stories

Harry Crosbie: the developer turned author brings much of the colour and life of Dublin’s docklands to his stories. Picture: Collins

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Undernose Farm Revisited

By Harry Crosbie

The Lilliput Press, €12.75

If you were to begin this book knowing nothing about its author, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was fully autobiographical – the memoir of a wide boy Dubliner coming of age in the early 1960s. Harry Crosbie, in other words.

Indeed, it was only when I’d reached the sixth short story (Not Only Pigeons Fly) that I paused for thought. Something about the ...