County Lines builds into a kaleidoscopic portrait of life as experienced there over the past half century. Edited by poet and novelist Dermot Bolger, County Lines features stories both ordinary and remarkable about the lives of people who put down roots, built communities and turned bare walls of new houses into homes.

This book is uniquely about South Dublin County - Lucan and Tallaght, Clondalkin and Palmerstown, Newcastle and Firhouse, Templeogue and Rathfarnham. But more than that, it is a snapshot of a changing Ireland and of a city constantly renewing itself.