The Family on Paradise Pier. Dermot Bolger

      For Donnacha and Diarmuid

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

Prologue 1941

PART ONE 1915–1935

ONE The Picnic

TWO The News

THREE Four Thousand Lamps

FOUR The Motor

FIVE The Boat

SIX The Docks

SEVEN The Exiles

EIGHT The Studio

NINE Not a Penny off the Pay

       TEN The Turf Cutters

       ELEVEN The Two Fredericks

       TWELVE Eccles Street

       THIRTEEN Deep in the Woods

       FOURTEEN Chelsea

       FIFTEEN The Visit

       SIXTEEN The Letter

       SEVENTEEN A Jaunt Abroad

       EIGHTEEN The Night Call

       PART TWO 1936

       NINETEEN Hunting and Shooting

       PART THREE 1937–1946

       TWENTY The Volunteer

       TWENTY-ONE Night

       TWENTY-TWO The Bailiffs

       TWENTY-THREE The Crumlin Kremlin

       TWENTY-FOUR The Journey

       TWENTY-FIVE The Camp

       TWENTY-SIX The Man from Spain

       TWENTY-SEVEN In the Hold

       TWENTY-EIGHT An Encounter

       TWENTY-NINE The Great Betrayal

       THIRTY The Plane

       THIRTY-ONE The Knock

       THIRTY-TWO The Grave

       THIRTY-THREE A Tutor Comes

       THIRTY-FOUR Make Room

       THIRTY-FIVE Home

       THIRTY-SIX The Former People

       THIRTY-SEVEN The Flag

       THIRTY-EIGHT A Darkened Room in Oxfordshire

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Praise

       By the Same Author

       Copyright

       About the Publisher