Quirke

The third in Black's series featuring the sullen pathologist Quirke is another case of a vanished daughter, this time in 1950s Dublin.

Laura Wilson's crime fiction choice - review Laura Wilson 2010

Can't beat "Quirke" for the name of a coroner, can you?

BANVILLE A BESTSELLER TEV 2007

Fatwatch: will the newly thin Pauline Quirke reoffend with fatness again?

Lucian Freud treasured the pleasures of the flesh | Barbara Ellen 2011

About 155 workers and contractors may be laid off, though BHP will seek to place people at its other businesses, company spokeswoman Kelly Quirke said.

BHP to Cut Jobs at Nickel Unit in Australia Robb M. Stewart 2012

Keith operation in the Northern Goldfields region, Ms. Quirke said, adding that a recent redesign enabling talc-bearing ore processing will allow Nickel West to maintain production of concentrate from stockpiled ore in the short term.

BHP to Cut Jobs at Nickel Unit in Australia Robb M. Stewart 2012

Freshly out of rehab, Quirke begins drinking again and frankly, one can't blame him – there's his grim childhood on top of the daughter business (adumbrated here but detailed in the first two books), plus the fact that Dublin in the 50s was small-minded and stifling as well as foggy and soggy.

Laura Wilson's crime fiction choice - review Laura Wilson 2010

The second was to create a more shared experience – not just reading out viewers 'tweets, but also recruiting a roving team: a geek boy (Empire's Chris Hewitt), an arthouse madam (newsprint critic Antonia Quirke) and a blogger so young he looked fresh from the womb (Charlie Lyne).

Film 2010: First night review Catherine Shoard 2010

This month Claire Hughes and Lulu Le Vay will be in charge of proceedings, keeping a watchful eye on the evening's dragged-up guests DJs Justine Quirke and Alexandra Rayner, who will be rocking their most ladylike attire and bringing their most dance-floor friendly tunes.

This week's new clubs Marc Rowlands 2010

The Irish writer and critic John Banville, who won the Booker Prize for his novel The Sea, has chosen to write the thrillers featuring his aptly named investigative pathologist, Quirke, under a pseudonym that itself pays homage to the genre.

Cover to Cover 2008

The Irish writer and critic John Banville, who won the Booker Prize for his novel The Sea, has chosen to write the thrillers featuring his aptly named investigative pathologist, Quirke, under a pseudonym that itself pays homage to the genre.

Cover to Cover 2008