Dermot Bolger is an Irish novelist, playwright and poet. His fifteen novels include The Family on Paradise Pier, An Ark of Light and most recently Hide Away. He has been Writer Fellow in Trinity College, a Fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy and, briefly, the fellow who was goalkeeping coach to the Shelbourne Under 11s. His twenty plays include Last Orders at the Dockside and an adaptation of Ulysses, both staged by the Abbey Theatre. His trilogy of plays, In High Germany (1990), The Parting Glass (2010) and Home, Boys, Home (2024) follow the lives of the three Irish soccer supporters, in Ireland and abroad, as they reunite at Irish soccer matches across the decades. His most recent book, Imperfect Beings, was published in 2026.