Dooneen

The astonishing Irish literary magician Keith Ridgway pulls from his hat the 21st-century’s Great Dublin Novel

A New Yorker Best Book of 2026

Shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize 2026

Bartholomew Port, known to all as Mew, steps into the bushes in a London park and steps out of the bushes in a Dublin one. Not only that—there are no cars; there are moving footpaths; there is no church; everything seems quite queer. Home by invitation, he has arrived in a Dublin that is alive with song, with rum...