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Dermot Bolger (born 1959) is an Irish novelist, playwright and poet born in Finglas, a suburb of Dublin.

His work is quite often concerned with the articulation of the experiences of working-class characters who, for various reasons, feel alienated from society. Bolger questions the relevance of traditional nationalist concepts of Irishness, arguing for a more plural and inclusive society.

• Night Shift (1985)
• The Woman’s Daughter (1987 &1991)
• The Journey Home (1990)
• Emily’s Shoes (1992)
• A Second Life (1994)
• Father’s Music (1997)
• Temptation (2000)
• The Valparaiso Voyage (2001)
• The Family on Paradise Pier (2005)

• The Lament for Arthur Cleary (1989)
• Blinded by the Light (1990)
• In High Germany (1990)
• The Holy Ground (1990)
• One Last White Horse (1991)
• A Dublin Bloom (1994)
• April Bright (1995)
• The Passion of Jerome (1999)
• Consenting Adults (2000)
• From these Green Heights (2005)
• The Townlands of Brazil (2006)

• The Habit of Flesh (1980)
• Finglas Lilies (1981)
• No Waiting America (1982)
• Internal Exiles (1986)
• Leinster Street Ghosts (1989)
• Taking my Letters Back (1998)
• The Chosen Moment (2004)

• La réécriture de l'histoire dans les Romans de Roddy Doyle, Dermot Bolger et Patrick McCabe by Alain Mouchel-Vallon (PhD thesis, 2005, Reims University, France). http://www.sudoc.abes.fr
• The State of the Nation: Paradigms of Irishness in the Drama and Fiction of Dermot Bolger by Damien Shortt (PhD thesis, 2006, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland)
• Ryan, Ray. Ireland and Scotland: Literature and Culture, State and Nation, 1966-2000. Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Paschel, Ulrike: No mean city? : the image of Dublin in the novels of Dermot Bolger, Roddy Doyle and Val Mulkerns. - Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 1998. – X, 170 S. - (Aachen British and American studies ; 1). - ISBN 3-631-33530-X
• Merriman, Vic: Staging contemporary Ireland : heartsickness and hopes deferred. In: The Cambridge companion to contemporary Irish drama / Shaun Richards, ed. - Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Pr., 2004 ; pp. 244-257 (On The lament for Arthur Cleary, 1989)
• Murphy, Paul: Inside the immigrant mind : nostalgic versus nomadic subjectivities in late twentieth-century Irish drama. In: Australasian drama studies, 43 (2003, Oct), pp. 128-147 (On A Dublin quartet)
• Tew, Philip: The lexicon of youth in Mac Laverty, Bolger, and Doyle : Theorizing contemporary Irish fiction via Lefebvre's Tenth Prelude. In: Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, 5:1 (1999), pp. 181-197
• Harte, Liam: A kind of scab : Irish identity in the writings of Dermot Bolger and Joseph O'Connor. In: Irish studies review, 20 (1997 autumn), pp. 17-22
• MacCarthy, Conor: Ideology and geography in Dermot Bolger's The Journey home. In: Irish university review: A journal of Irish studies, 27:1 (1997 Spring-Summer), pp. 98-110
• Merriman, Vic: Centring the wanderer : Europe as active imaginary in contemporary Irish theatre. In: Irish university review: a journal of Irish studies, 27:1 (1997Spring-Summer), pp. 166-181 (On The Lament of Arthur Cleary)
• Aragay, Mireia: Reading Dermot Bolger's The Holy Ground : national identity, gender and sexuality in post-colonial Ireland. In: Links and letters, 4 (1997), pp. 53-64
• Turner, Tramble T.: Staging signs of gender. In: Semiotics 1994: Annual proceedings volumes of the Semiotic Society of America. 19 / John Deely (ed.) ... New York  : Lang, 1995. pp. 335-344 (On The lament for Arthur Cleary, 1989)