Thank you very much to the publishers for sending a copy to the Bookbag.
Reading The Dead Republic has made me want to reread or read all the author's other work – you could start with [[Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle|Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha]] which won the Booker Prize in 1993. Another wonderful fictional Irish character is the ex Garda (policeman) turned reluctant sort of PI, Jack Taylor, in Ken Bruen's [[The Guards by Ken Bruen|The Guards]] and [[The Killing of the Tinkers by Ken Bruen\|The Killing of the Tinkers]].