Sit-down Sunday: The Celtic Hemingway: Dermot Healy

The Sunday Long Read. Dermot Healy was hailed as “Ireland’s greatest writer” by Roddy Doyle. As the tenth anniversary of his death approaches, I look back on his stellar writing career.

The late Dermot even looked like a Celtic Hemingway…

Dermot Healy was often hailed as the Celtic Hemingway and even described as “Ireland’s greatest writer” by Roddy Doyle. But when I met him only two and a half years before he died in 2014, Dermot acknowledged that most readers had “forgotten” about him because at that stage he had been almost a dozen …