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Sat 10 Oct 2009Messages from the margins
SHORT STORIES: HEATHER INGMANreviews Old Swords and Other StoriesBy Desmond Hogan The Lilliput Press, 138pp, €14.99
IT’S HARD to convey to younger readers what Desmond Hogan’s books meant to those who were young in Ireland in the 1970s, when Hogan was part of the new generation of Irish writers that was going to shake up the establishment. Among their number was Neil Jordan who co-founded the Irish Writers’ Co-operative, which published Hogan’s first novel, The Ikon Maker, in 1976.
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