"I'm going to London."
"You're not?"
"Tonight's mail boat."
"What happened?"
"It's so involved I don't know."
"That's fair enough."

- J.P. Donleavy from The Ginger Man

John Boland
John Boland's top 12 Irish books

Irish Independent, Wednesday, June 30, 2004

1.

WB Yeats: The Poems

2.

Patrick Kavanagh: Selected Poems

3.

Robert Lloyd Praeger: The Way That I Went

4.

Elizabeth Bowen: The Last September

5.

Maeve Brennan: The Springs of Affection


6.

Flann O'Brien: At Swim-Two-Birds

7.

J.P. Donleavy: The Ginger Man


8.

CS Andrews: Dublin Made Me


9.

Hubert Butler: Independent Spirit


10.

John McGahern: The Collected Stories


11.

Roddy Doyle: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha


12.

Paul Muldoon: Poems 1968-1998

To purchase books by J.P. Donleavy, go to the Buyers' Guide.

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