Ambitious Dublin novel offers much to enjoy
Caustic and grim portrait of city
Fiction; Citizens; By Kevin Curran; Liberties Press, €13.95
In November 2010 – just as the troika was rolling into Dublin – a certain well-known Irish newspaper published an editorial asking “whether this is what the men of 1916 died for: a bailout from the German chancellor with a few shillings of sympathy from the British chancellor on the side?”. This plaintive note is struck again in Kevin Curran’s second novel, following Beatsploitation (2013). ...