Mr Gilhooley Author:Liam O'Flaherty Forty-nine-year-old Mr Gilhooley is living two lives: the one drinking in the pubs of Dublin, the other desperate and lonely, longing for love. A chance encounter with the innocent and yet destructive Nelly starts a chain of compelling, dark and menacing events. — This is the underworld of 1920's Dublin. Death, violence, sex, religion and love en... more »twine and weave paths in this visually rich and passionate tragic-comedy.
Mr Gilhooley rivalled the fame of Joyce's Ulysses when it was first published, and was reviewed by W.B. Yeats as "a great novel."« less