Undernose Farm Revisited

By Harry Crosbie

In this expanded edition of his original privately published
book of twelve stories published in December 2020, Harry
Crosbie adds a further sixteen tales from the Dublin of
his youth. Begun during lockdown, Harry harvested his
formidable memory and imagination to recreate city life
during the early 1960s, told through tales of the Dublin and
Dubliners who made up his hard-scrabble world.
John Banville wrote of the original volume, ‘These
wonderfully direct and vivid tales catch the essence of Dublin
life half a century ago. They are by turns rambunctious
and touching, clear-eyed and accepting, warm though
never sentimental, and frequently hilarious.’ Richard Ford
compared his work to the writings of Mark Twain, Ring
Lardner and Nelson Algren.
Crosbie has now fulfilled this promise with these fresh,
sparkling stories, each propelled by character, ambition,
need and greed, and suffused with humanity and wit. They
are peopled by family, down-at-heel aristocrats, antique
dealers and auctioneers, their background the river and
streetlife of mid-century Dublin, its pubs and cafes, homes
and institutions. Warm as coddle on a winter’s night.
Each tale is nuanced, spare and perfectly pitched. Part
chamber music, part ballad and folktale, Undernose Farm
Revisited bears the stamp of literature in the making.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Lilliput Press
• Release date: Oct 6, 2021
• ISBN: 9781843518372

Harry Crosbie

Harry Crosbie is best known as the developer who transformed Dublin and its music scene during the 1990s with the Point and Bord Gáis theatres, Vicar Street and the docklands. Here he discovers a voice that will leave an equal mark on cultural memory.