Warrenpoint (First Dalkey Archive edition.)

Warrenpoint is a memoir, and more than a memoir: with moments of novelistic narrative and lyricism wedded to musings on the aesthetic and theological themes of the authors coming of agefilial piety, original sin, a childs perceptions, and then the nature of terrorism, and of reading itselfit demonstrates the same insight and lucidity that have contributed to Denis Donoghues fame as one of our most important critics.

Taking its title from the seaside town in Northern Ireland whose police barracks served as the residence for the Catholic Donoghues, it has been described as a family romance, dealing not only with the authors love for his strong-willed, taciturn, policeman father, but his love for literature and how it shaped his life to come.