Writing the Sky review: A valuable guide to the myriad-minded Dermot Healy
It’s heartening to see a contemporary Irish writer being treated with such seriousness and dedication
Writer Dermot Healy near his home in Ballyconnell West, Co Sligo. Photograph: Alan Betson
Planned before his untimely death, two years ago, Writing the Sky and The Collected Plays – two hefty books – are part of a multivolume sequence devoted to Dermot Healy, and it is heartening to see the work of a contemporary Irish writer being treated with such seriousness and dedication. They are a valuable guide to the work of a man who truly was myriad minded: poet, playwright, short-story writer, novelist, memoirist, editor, actor and director.