![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Its members included the much loved children’s author Patricia Lynch and playwright Teresa Deevy, who visited with Liam Miller of the Dolmen Press and partied with Jack B Yeats. In the Shelbourne and the Gresham we see Bowen and Kate O’Brien honoured by the Women Writers’ Club, a group which met monthly to celebrate books and to battle censorship. ![]() There are so many different ghosts here, fictional and real so many different ways, in this part of town, to be dead. Sitting beside the canal we find not just Kavanagh, but also Beckett visiting his mother in her last days – or is it his character Krapp? – waiting on a bench for the blind on her window to be pulled down. Christopher Morash’s fine update on literary Dublin may begin with McDaid’s, but it soon moves beyond the powerful myth of the drinking writer made and mourned by Anthony Cronin in his book Dead As Doornails.Įchoing through the streets of “Baggotonia” are the well-shod footstep of Elizabeth Bowen, who was born at 15 Herbert Place. It used to be said that some people give directions by way of the pubs and some by way of the churches, and for too long, perhaps, the literary map of Ireland has been a pub crawl. ![]()
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