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Quirke grew up in the harsh environment of Carricklea Industrial School for orphaned boys. He was rescued by Garret Griffin , a rising star in Dublin’s legal profession, who took Quirke in and ...
- Rose Crawford
Rose recognises a kindred spirit in Quirke when he travels...
- Malachy Griffin
Mal finally achieved victory over Quirke when Sarah agreed...
- Sarah Griffin
Initially Sarah dated Quirke but he soon moved on to her...
- Josh Crawford
Josh and Quirke have always been wary of each other and...
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- Rose Crawford
Jan 18, 2016 · In that book Quirke – his lack of a first name was my hommage to the great Richard Stark and his compelling main character, Parker – was very tall and broad, with blond hair. His background was murky: an orphan, he had spent his childhood in Carricklea in the West of Ireland, a Church-run industrial school, so-called, which in reality was a junior prison where all sorts of waifs and strays ...
May 25, 2014 · From each smoke- stained saloon wall to the city’s dimly- lit, dark- grey cobblestones, 1950’s Dublin is evoked in a way that is compelling, aesthetically precise and true to Banville’s depiction of the city as in his Benjamin Black novels. Playing a lead role that he was born to play, Byrne is at his smoldering, Bogart- best as Quirke, a ...
- Irish Post
BBC One. Release. 25 May. (2014-05-25) –. 8 June 2014. (2014-06-08) Quirke is a crime drama television series that was first broadcast on BBC One and RTÉ One in 2014. The three-part series is based on the Quirke novels by John Banville, writing under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, and was adapted by Andrew Davies and Conor McPherson.
CharacterChristine FallsThe Silver SwanElegy For AprilQuirkeMalachy GriffinPhoebe GriffinJdg. Garret GriffinQuirke (series) The Quirke series of crime novels, written by Irish novelist John Banville under the pen name Benjamin Black, centres on the titular character, a pathologist in 1950s Dublin. The series is published by Henry Holt & Co. in the US. The first novel, Christine Falls, was first released by Picador in the UK in 2006; it was published ...
May 31, 2016 · Because Quirke spent his childhood in an industrial school, his family story is never revealed, although Quirke assures Phoebe that ‘there are worse things than being an orphan’. Footnote 12 He was ‘rescued’ by Judge Garett Griffin, a prominent member of Dublin’s legal profession and of the Catholic society of the Knights of Saint ...
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Quirke: With Gabriel Byrne, Brian Gleeson, Nick Dunning, Aisling Franciosi. A chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue investigates sudden death victims in the 1950s.
