![]() ![]() ![]() Just as Wallander has come to exemplify Swedish Noir and Inspector Morse embodied the very best of British crime drama, Benjamin Black’s (the pen name of Wexford- born prose stylist John Banville) Quirke is a character creation unique to the landscape in which he is portrayed a once orphaned anti- hero who carries the burden of what we now recognize as the Catholic Church’s highly questionable legacy in Ireland.Īlthough played on- screen by Drimnagh-native Gabriel Byrne, the true star of Quirke is 1950’s Dublin. IN what might be dubbed “Celtic Noir” or “Dubh Noir”, Ireland has finally caught up with British and Swedish television in claiming a sleuth who is uniquely ours, in every sense. ![]()
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