County Lines: A Portrait of Life in South Dublin County

County Lines is a unique and remarkable miscellany of voices telling their own life stories and, by extension, the lives of the new communities that have grown up in South Dublin County. It builds into a kaleidoscopic portrait of life as experienced there over the past half century. Edited by poet and novelist Dermot Bolger, County Lines features stories both ordinary and remarkable about the lives of people who put down roots, built communities and turned bare walls of new houses into homes. This book is uniquely about South Dublin County - Lucan and Tallaght, Clondalkin and Palmerstown, Newcastle and Firhouse, Templeogue and Rathfarnham. But more than that, it is a snapshot of a changing Ireland and of a city constantly renewing itself.

Quotations from County Lines:

'A representative from the Residents' Association called to the door one evening to ask my father to cut the grass. My father said it was a wildlife preserve to encourage his children's love of nature' Christine Dwyer Hickey

'The moon rode alongside us as we journeyed down the Greenhills Road...The vast expanses of Fettercairn and Jobstown seemed to stretch as far as infinity. Killinarden, Balrothery, Firhouse, Aylesbury and Old Bawn where also on the driver's map, a roll call of housing estates gouged out of wild fields' Eileen Casey