Irish crime writing is a recent phenomenon. While there have been great and internationally acknowledged Irish authors for a much longer time, crime was until recently a subject that authors more or less ignored.
Down These Green Streets explores why crime was ignored by Irish authors for such a long time, and why it has recently exploded into our bookshops.
A large number of Irish crime writers and journalists explore the reasons for this change in the fortunes of Irish crime writing More...

This book is worth reading if, for no other reason, than Ken Bruens' tribute to David Thompson, late publisher of Busted Flush press and longtime employee of Murder by the Book in Houston. I never met David but dealt with him quite a bit on the phone and through email and some of his recommendations have pride of place in my book collection. Well done by Mr. Bruen who is my favorite of the current crop of Irish crime writers, to take nothing away from John Connolly, DeClan Hughes, DeClan Burke, More...

For some time now, in addition to reading a bunch of crime fiction related blogs, I've also been dabbling in the anthology Down These Green Streets, in which a host of contemporary Irish crime writers responding to the requests of Dublin novelist and critic Declan Burke have turned in essays on various aspects of the crime story in Ireland present and past. The scope of the talent that's been squeezed in between these pages is pretty amazing. When you've got the likes of Ken Bruen, Adrian McKint More...

Available in the US August 28, 2011 (bn.com). Anthology of Irish Crime Fiction and Essays including work by John Banville (Benjamin Black), Tana French, John Connolly. Forward by Michael Connelly. With a short story by Kevin McCarthy, "Twenty-five and Out."