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John Kelly was born in 1965 in County Fermanagh. He works as a writer and broadcaster mainly for RTE and The Irish Times. He is the author of The Little Hammer (2000) and Sophisticated Boom Boom (2003). Married with one daughter, he lives in Dublin.

Books by John Kelly

Sophisticated Boom Boom

'John Kelly is an immensely gifted writer - he can do things with the spoken language that are rare to behold and behear' - Tom Paulin

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The Little Hammer

A majestic and psychologically penetrative narrative, which has the reader crying then laughing from one page to the next.

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