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        <publisher>Journal of Irish Studies</publisher>
        <journalTitle>Estudios Irlandeses</journalTitle>
        <eissn>1699-311X</eissn>
            <publicationDate>2012-03-15</publicationDate>
        <volume>7</volume>
    <issue>7</issue>
        <startPage>109</startPage>
    <endPage>112</endPage>
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    <title language="eng"><![CDATA[ Politics, Place and Religion in Irish American Noir Fiction. An Interview with Dennis Lehane ]]></title>

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      <author>
        <name><![CDATA[ Carlos Menéndez-Otero ]]></name>
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      <affiliationName affiliationId="1"><![CDATA[ Universidad de Oviedo, España ]]></affiliationName>
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        <abstract language="eng"><![CDATA[ Dennis Lehane was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, MA, in 1965, the youngest of five children of a couple of Irish immigrants from Cork. He published his first novel in 1994, A Drink Before the War, which introduced the Boston working-class detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, who have since reappeared in Darkness, Take My Hand (1996), Sacred (1997), Gone, Baby, Gone (1998), Prayers for Rain (1999) and Moonlight Mile (2010). Other works by Lehane include Mystic River (2001) and Shutter Island (2003), whose successful screen adaptations were directed by Clint Eastwood in 2004 and Martin Scorsese in 2010, respectively. He is also the author of The Given Day (2008), a monumental novel set in the Boston of the 1919 Police Strike, and wrote three episodes of the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire(2002-2008).
With thanks to the 24th Semana Negra book festival organizing committee, what follows is an edited transcription of Dennis Lehane’s press conference and the brief interview the author kindly granted us afterwards in Gijon, Spain, on July 28, 2011
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          <keywords language="eng">
              <keyword>Boston</keyword>
              <keyword>Dorchester</keyword>
              <keyword>Extremism</keyword>
              <keyword>Fiction</keyword>
              <keyword>Irish American</keyword>
              <keyword>Lehane</keyword>
              <keyword>Noir</keyword>
              <keyword>Pedophilia</keyword>
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