Book review: Boulevard Wren & The Stories by Blindboy Boatclub

Fearless second look at modern Ireland, but not as we know it

Blindboy Boatclub: drawing comparisons to Irvine Welsh and Flann O’Brien PIc: Alan Place

Short Stories: Boulevard Wren & The Stories, By Blindboy Boatclub, Gill Books, €19.95

You know you’re onto something when Danny Boyle, the director of Trainspotting, is moved to comment: “the [reading] experience is as close to reading a traditional short story as being burnt by a blowtorch.” Blindboy Boatclub, known to the taxman as Dave Chambers, has thrived on the sort of outlandish terrain where many others have tried to land, and perished. ...