Dublin

A Writer’s City

Christopher Morash

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.

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.

Advance praise

‘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

A Writer’s City

Dublin

‘Indispensible’ Sunday Times

Chris Chris Morash Morash

UK publication March 2023 US publication March 2023

9781108831642 Hardback

£19.99 | $24.95 USD | $28.95 CAD

At a glance

• Organised spatially, by zones or areas within the city, allowing readers to explore the city, cutting across historical periods without a preliminary knowledge of the city’s history • Contains numerous maps, black and white, and colour illustrations, which provides readers with an immersive experience of the city, allowing them to connect the visual with the stories of the city • This book is written in a lively, personal writing style with the nonspecialist reader in mind