Gene Kerrigan is an Irish journalist and novelist who grew up in Cabra in Dublin. His works include political commentary on Ireland since the 1970s in such publications as Magill magazine and the Sunday Independent newspaper. He has also written about Ireland for International Socialism magazine.Ireland: A Special Survey International Socialism, October 1976 (with Des Derwin, John Goodwillie, & Brian Trench).
His book The Rage won the 2012 Gold Dagger for the best crime novel of the year. Marilyn Stasio, in a 2014 review of Dark Times in the City, comments that Kerrigan "writes with a grim elegance".
Kerrigan retired from his role as a regular columnist with the Sunday Independent in November 2023.
List of works Non-Fiction with Derek Dunne
with Derek Speirs
and Gill & Macmillan
with Pat Brennan
Fiction , also Random House () and Europa () , also Europa Editions ()
References
External links Gene Kerrigan at the Sunday Independent Police Interrogation Endangers the Innocent PDF format, 290 KB Kerrigan's entry at Ricorso, the Irish writers' database