In between  C. J. Cherryh and Patrick McCabe, who was known for his mostly dark and violent novels set in contemporary—often small-town—Ireland?
Patrick McCabe
Patrick McCabe (novelist)
Patrick McCabe (born 27 March 1955) is an Irish writer.
 Known for his mostly dark and violent novels set in contemporary—often small-town—Ireland, McCabe has been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for "The Butcher Boy" and "Breakfast on Pluto", both of which have been made into films.
C. J. Cherryh
Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction.
 She has written more than 60 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award-winning novels "Downbelow Station" (1981) and "Cyteen" (1988), both set in her Alliance-Union universe.
 She is known for "world building," depicting fictional realms with great realism supported by vast research in history, language, psychology, and archeology.
 Her series of fantasy novels set in the Alliance-Union universe, the Morgaine Stories, have sold in excess of 3 million copies.
Emerald Germs of Ireland
Emerald Germs of Ireland (2001) is a black comedy novel by Irish writer Patrick McCabe.
 Each chapter is begun with an Irish folk song. The Butcher Boy (1997 film)
The Butcher Boy is an 1997 Irish-American tragicomic drama film adapted to film by Neil Jordan and Patrick McCabe from McCabe's 1992 novel of the same name. Breakfast on Pluto
Breakfast on Pluto is a 1998 novel by Patrick McCabe.
 The book was shortlisted for the 1998 Booker Prize, and was adapted for the screen by McCabe and Neil Jordan; Jordan directed the 2005 film.
 The author derived the novel's title from the 1969 hit record "Breakfast On Pluto" by Don Partridge. The Sword of Knowledge
The Sword of Knowledge is a trilogy of shared world fantasy novels credited to the authors C. J. Cherryh, Leslie Fish, Nancy Asire, and Mercedes Lackey.
 The three novels in the series were all published by Baen Books in 1989: "A Dirge for Sabis" (Cherryh and Fish), "Wizard Spawn" (Cherryh and Asire), and "Reap the Whirlwind" (Cherryh and Lackey).
 The books were first released as a complete trilogy in an omnibus edition in 1995. Catholic (album)
catholic is the fourth solo album from Gavin Friday, written and recorded with musician Herbie Macken and released in 2011.
 It was released in Ireland on Good Friday (22 April), 16 years after the release of his previous album, "Shag Tobacco".
 "catholic" deals with concepts of letting go and coming to terms with loss.
 It was produced by Ken Thomas (Throbbing Gristle, Cocteau Twins, Sigur Rós) and recorded in Dublin, Cork and West Yorkshire.
 Patrick McCabe wrote the novella "Requiem for the Dying" for the album liner notes.
 The video for "Able" was directed by Kevin Godley. Breakfast on Pluto (film)
Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 British-Irish comedy-drama film written and directed by Neil Jordan and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McCabe, as adapted by Jordan and McCabe.
 This dark comedy stars Cillian Murphy as a transgender foundling searching for love and her long-lost mother in small town Ireland and London in the 1970s. Thieves' World
Thieves' World is a shared world fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin in 1978.
 The original series comprised twelve anthologies, including stories by such science fiction authors as Poul Anderson, John Brunner, Andrew J. Offutt, C. J. Cherryh, Janet Morris, and Chris Morris.
 The Morrises introduced "the Sacred Band of Stepsons" in Thieves' World and spun off a series of novels about them and their ancient cavalry commander, Tempus.
 The first three novels in "The Sacred Band of Stepsons" saga were authorized Thieves World novels.
 Marion Zimmer Bradley was an early contributor but spun off her main character in the novel "Lythande" (1986) and did not return for later volumes.
 The series went on hiatus after the twelfth anthology.
 In addition to the official anthologies, several authors published novels set in the milieu of Thieves World. The Butcher Boy (novel)
The Butcher Boy is a 1992 novel by Patrick McCabe.
 Set in a small town in Ireland in the early 1960s, it tells the story of Francis "Francie" Brady, a schoolboy who retreats into a violent fantasy world as his troubled home life collapses.