by the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, who revived their production for a second run in 2018. As an eighteen-year-old factory worker in 1977 Bolger set up Raven Arts Press, which published early books by writers like Patrick McCabe, Colm Toibin, Sara Berkeley, Fintan O’Toole, Eoin McNamee, Kathryn Holmquist, Michael O'Loughlin, Sebastian Barry and Rosita Boland as well as the first English language translations of Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, and, in 1988, Paddy Doyle's groundbreaking memoir, The God Squad(1988), which is described in The Cambridge History of Irish Literature (page 468) as "an exposé of the institutional regime to which outcast children were subjected by religious care-givers". Raven followed this up with another exposé, this time about Irish Industrial Schools in Patrick Galvin's memoir Song for a Raggy Boy(1991), which was later made into a 2003 film of the same name, directed by Aisling Walsh, which, according to The Cambridge History of Irish Literature (page 553) "focuses on how a lay teacher responds to the verbal and physical abuse doled out by the Christian Brothers in a reformatory school".Bolger ran Raven Arts Press until 1992, when he co-founded New Island Books with Edwin Higel to continue to support new Irish writers. In 2022 New Island Books celebrated thirty years in existence. It describes itself on its website as "Ireland’s premier independent publisher of literary fiction and Irish-interest non-fiction". Since 1989 Bolger has acted as associate editor of the "New Irish Writing" page, which has been edited by Ciaran Carty in a succession of Irish newspapers since 1989, continuing a tradition started by David Marcus in 1969 in the now defunct Irish Press newspaper. The page is currently hosted by the Irish Independent newspaper. In May 2022 Bolger received an honorary doctorate in literature from the National University of Ireland, in a ceremony at the Royal College of Physicians in Dublin, during which a similar honorary doctorate was conferred on Marie Heaney. Writings Night Shift (1985) is Bolger's first novel. The main protagonist is Donal, a young man from Finglas who works the night shift in a local factory. Donal's girlfriend, Elizabeth, is pregnant and they both live in a caravan at the foot of her parents' garden. Needless to say, her parents are hardly thrilled at the situation and Donal works hard to improve the life he shares with Elizabeth. The Journey Home (1990) was originally published by Penguin and was a