In its libraries, Dublin’s literary reputation shines

We Dubliners take a lot of pride in our city's reputation as a literary capital (not least because it lends our loquaciousness a certain gravitas, as if every quip were something more exalted than mere banter). Walk into any genuine pub in town, and you're bound to see that famous poster of Irish literary heroes on the wall. It's not idle boastfulness: Dublin can claim four Nobel laureates — George Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney. Moreover, the names Oscar Wilde, Brendan Behan, Flann O'Brien and of course James Joyce are synonymous with the town.
Read full article >> Stephanie McCrummen 02 Oct, 2011
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