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Book SynopsisDublin: A Writer's City can be imagined as a map of one of the world's great literary cities, taking the reader, area-by-area, through the neighbourhoods that shaped – and were shaped by – writers including Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Anne Enright and Sally Rooney. It's illustrated, with maps to guide the reader.
Trade Review'Dublin: A Writer's City is a comprehensive guide to this incomprehensibly graphomane capital, less city than town, less town than village, less village than inkpot. Christopher Morash's book is engrossing, enlightening, relaxedly scholarly and splendidly entertaining.' John Banville
'Here is the Dublin I know and love. This is an invaluable guide to a living, changing city; one that is rich in stories as well as books. Moving lightly from the deep past to the present day, Christopher Morash has managed to be affectionate, accurate and comprehensive, all at once.' Anne Enright
'… a fitting tribute to the rich literary history of Dublin.' Publishers Weekly
'We often think of literary giants such as Oscar Wilde, WB Yeats, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, but while Chris Morash's new book explores the contributions of these behemoths, it also goes much further. It takes us by the hand from Dublin's elegant Georgian facades down back alleys to hear the hundreds of pamphleteers, poets and playwrights chattering incessantly back and forth across the centuries.' Elizabeth O'Neill, Sunday Business Post
'… a fascinating new book, Dublin: A Writer's City...brilliantly joins up the jigsaw of the lives that different generations of Dublin writers lived … If you want a book that pieces together Behan's inner city, Eavan Boland's Dundrum, Roddy Doyle's fictional Barrytown or the Howth heather where Molly Bloom said yes, then Morash's book is a joy to dip into and see familiar places revealed in a fresh light.' Dermot Bolder, Dublin Evening Herald
'Dublin, a Writer's City manages to be compendious in a small space, busy as the streets themselves and true to the remarkable spirit of a town that insists, decade after decade, a century ago and next year, in nurturing, goading and facilitating some of the most vibrant literature to be found in the English-speaking world (an unfashionable opinion … Moving into the 21st century, it respects a living tradition and brings us a crucial step further along.' Anne Enright, The Irish Times
'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 one word that quintessentially sums up Dublin – A Writer's City is inspiring.' David Marx, David Marx:Book Reviews
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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.
