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Died
  
2013

Education
  
Trinity College, Dublin

Books
  
Slanguage: A Dictionar, In Time of Civil War, Inish, Dublinese, Naming Names: Who - Wh

Bernard Share (1930-2013) was an Irish novelist, critic, editor, and lecturer on modern literature. His novels include Inish and Transit. He also wrote an account of World-War-II-era Irish life, titled The Emergency, and has published works on slang and notable quotations. Several of his works have been reissued by Dalkey Archive Press, as part of the John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series.

He was one of the founders, and the first secretary, of Publishing Ireland, the Irish booksellers' association.

Publications

  • Irish Lives; Biographies of fifty famous Irish men and women, (with William Bolger) Figgis, Dublin, 1971, ISBN 0-9003-7241-9
  • The Emergency: Neutral Ireland 1939–45, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1978, ISBN 0-7171-1516 X
  • The Flight of the Iolar: The Aer Lingus Experience 1936–1986, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1986, ISBN 0-7171-1457-0
  • Shannon Departures, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1992, ISBN 0-7171-1830-4
  • Bunratty : Rebirth of a Castle, Brandon Press, Dingle, 1995, ISBN 0-8632-2206-4
  • Slanguage : A dictionary of slang and colloquial English in Ireland, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1997, ISBN 0-7171-2353-7
  • Dublinese : Know What I mean?, Doughcloyne, Cork, 2006, ISBN 1-9051-7207-9
  • In time of Civil War : the conflict on the Irish railways, 1922-23, Collins Press, Cork, 2006, ISBN 1-9051-7211-7

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