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For its size, Dublin has produced more writers than any other city in the world. These range from Jonathan Swift, Charles Maturin, William Carleton and Thomas Moore to Lafcadio Hearn, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce and Maeve Binchy. And they include no fewer than four winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, W.B. Yeats, Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney. A City of Writers is a guide to the homes and haunts of forty of Dublin's foremost authors. It features a profile of each and a Recommended Reading list of their works. The book also includes suggested walks, which will enable readers to retrace the footsteps of their literary idols and the characters they created. Visiting the homes of these writers, retracing their steps, provides a rare sense of immediacy, a tangible feeling of the life they led and an insight into their work. Here, James Clarence Mangan shuffled in his oversize cloak. There, Lady Morgan established Dublin's first notable literary salon. Sheridan le Fanu walked this square after dark. Young Bram Stoker heard his first stories on that lawn. Illustrated by leading photographer Johnny Bambury,
About the author
A former Grand Prix reporter, Brendan has written seven books, including the award-winning Green Dust motor racing history and a memoir, There Might Be a Drop of Rain Yet. He has contributed to national and international media from The Irish Times to The Observer, The Times and The European. His features on Irish writers encouraged the establishment of Dublin's George Bernard Shaw Museum and the James Joyce Cultural Centre.
Summary
For its size, Dublin has produced more writers than any other city in the world. This is a guide to the homes and haunts of forty of Dublin's foremost authors. It features a profile of each and a Recommended Reading list of their works.
