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Book Review: Literary ghosts of Dublin come alive in fascinating stroll through city
From literary legends to small scale pamphleteers, Chris Morash’s book opens up new corners of a city bursting at the seams with writers great and small
Writers sit on pedestals all over Dublin, literally and metaphorically. The fact that stories are an endemic part of the city is accepted without question.
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 ...
