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This fascinating travel and reference book is a guide to the city that has been home to some of the most famous writers in the history of literature and drama, as well as the birthplace of three Nobel Prize winners for literature: Shaw, Yeats and Beckett.
Synopsis
This fascinating travel and reference book is a guide to the city that has been home to some of the most famous writers in the history of literature and drama, as well as the birthplace of three Nobel Prize winners for literature. Vivien Igoe describes the connections that countless writers had with Dublin, to those who spent most of their adult years there, and even those who just visited. Entertaining anecdotes are woven in with details of areas the writers frequented and the locations in which their works were set, accompanied by present-day photographs. Also included are five walking tours with maps, guides to the cemeteries where many of the writers are buried, and a separate section on the literary pubs.