The Glorious Heresies
Lisa McInerney
2015 • John Murray
Irish fiction seems to be in a very healthy place. There are a lot of platforms to be published in Ireland: literary magazines and journals – some run entirely run by women – and independent publishers. It feels like if you write, you will find readers. And I think that allows for a lot of confidence.
— Lisa McInerney
The Glorious Heresies
Lisa McInerney
2015 • John Murray
Irish fiction seems to be in a very healthy place. There are a lot of platforms to be published in Ireland: literary magazines and journals – some run entirely run by women – and independent publishers. It feels like if you write, you will find readers. And I think that allows for a lot of confidence.
— Lisa McInerney
Description
One messy murder affects the lives of five misfits who exist on the fringes of Ireland’s post-crash society. Ryan is a fifteen-year-old drug dealer desperate not to turn out like his alcoholic father Tony, whose obsession with his unhinged next-door neighbour threatens to ruin him and his family. Georgie is a prostitute whose willingness to feign a religious conversion has dangerous repercussions, while Maureen, the accidental murderer, has returned to Cork after forty years in exile to discover that Jimmy, the son she was forced to give up years before, has grown into the most fearsome gangster in the city. In seeking atonement for the murder and a multitude of other perceived sins, Maureen threatens to destroy everything her son has worked so hard for, while her actions risk bringing the intertwined lives of the Irish underworld into the spotlight . . .
Biting, moving and darkly funny, The Glorious Heresies explores salvation, shame and the legacy of Ireland’s twentieth-century attitudes to sex and family.
Excerpts
Interviews
- The Irish Times: Lisa McInerney Interview
- The Guardian: Lisa McInerney – ‘I’ve Known People Who’ve Done Appalling Things’
- Banshee Press: Interview With Lisa McInerney
- Women’s Prize For Fiction: Q&A with Lisa McInerney
- The Short Story: The Short Story Interview – Lisa McInerney
Prizes & Awards
Reviews
- Joeseph O’Connor, The Irish Times
- Alfred Hickling, The Guardian
- Swirl and Thread, Writing.ie
- Mairéad Kiernan, Headstuff
- Jon Michaud, The Washington Post
- Sarah Tinsley, Sarah Tinsley Blog
- Eric Karl Anderson, The Lonesome Reader Blog
- Kirkus
Audio
- BBC: Lisa McInerney on her Book The Glorious Heresies
- The Book Show: Lisa McInerney and Writing in Cork City
- RTÉ: Elaine Feeney and Lisa McInerney
Video
- Kennys Bookshop: Lisa McInerney Reads in Kennys
- Pantisocracy with Panti Bliss: Lisa McInerney The Glorious Heresies, Excerpt
- The Tommy Tiernan Show: John Connors, John Aldridge, Lisa McInerney
