Blue Star Rising

Blue Star Rising, a literary novel set in the autumn of 1993, tells the story of Richard (Dickie) Boyle, a member of the Dublin Gaelic Football Team (who play in blue jerseys). As a child, Richard was fostered from his birth family in the inner city to a middle class family in the suburbs. His foster parents have recently died and left him with property and money. Now just out of college, he starts a temporary teaching job in a Sheltered Workshop where he meets Dee. It is a whirlwind journey of young love set against a background of life threatening violence, social imbalance, family opposition, and the strains that superstar status brings to a relationship that is given the full media treatment by the tabloid press. This journey of self-discovery takes him back to his birth family in Dublin’s flatland, and their involvement with drugs and paramilitary violence, forcing Richard to confront his past, a past that threatens to destroy all that he holds dear.