Dublin: A Writer's City

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.

ISBN-13: 9781108831642

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 03-09-2023

Pages: 332

Product Dimensions: 6.34(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.83(d)

Series: Imagining Cities

Chris Morash has published widely on Irish studies, with books on Irish Famine literature, Irish theatre history, media history, and spatial theory; he has collaborated with the Abbey Theatre, and chairs the judging panel for the Dublin Literary Award, one of the world's richest literary prizes.

Table of Contents

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.