Dublin
A Writer's City

Dublin: A Writer's City takes the reader, area by area, through one of the world's great literary cities.

Christopher Morash (Author)

9781108831642, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 9 March 2023

332 pages
23.5 x 16.1 x 2.1 cm, 0.69 kg

'A wonderfully rich account of the Irish capital's impressive writerly heritage … the book is lavishly illustrated with numerous unfamiliar images from the archives, and is itself written in a beautiful style that adds to the very literary culture that the author seeks to celebrate.' James Moran, The Tablet

The words of its writers are part of the texture of Dublin, an invisible counterpart to the bricks and pavement we see around us. Beyond the ever-present footsteps of James Joyce's characters, Leopold Bloom or Stephen Dedalus, around the city centre, an ordinary-looking residential street overlooking Dublin Bay, for instance, presents the house where Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney lived for many years; a few blocks away is the house where another Nobel Laureate, W. B. Yeats, was born.  Just down the coast is the pier linked to yet another, Samuel Beckett, from which we can see the Martello Tower that is the setting for the opening chapter of Ulysses. But these are only a few. Step-by-step, Dublin: A Writer's City unfolds a book-lover's map of this unique city, inviting us to experience what it means to live in a great city of literature.  The book is heavily illustrated, and features custom maps.

Introduction: the imagined city in time of pandemic
1. Mapping the city
2. Baggotonia
3. Around St. Stephen's Green
4. Trinity College
5. Around the Liberties
6. O'Connell Street and the Abbey Theatre
7. The north inner city
8. South Dublin
9. The south coast
10. North Dublin
11. Riverrun.

Subject Areas: Travel & holiday guides [WTH], British & Irish history [HBJD1], Literary companions, book reviews & guides [DSRC], Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literature: history & criticism [DS]