Literary Dublin
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, 2024. And what do we think of on this day?
BOOKS! POETRY! DRAMA! LIBRARIES! PUBS!
Seven-stop literary crawl of Dublin
Christopher Morash, the Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing at Trinity College Dublin, author of Dublin: A Writer’s City1 provides “An Irish writing professor's seven-stop literary crawl of Dublin.” 2 3
McDaid's on Harry Street, one of Dublin's splendid Victorian-era pubs. “"I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me." - Brendan Behan
The Museum of Literature Ireland.4
Trinity College, Dublin. some writers who attended: Jonathan Swift, Samuel Beckett and Oscar Wilde. Old Library, home to the Book of Kells.5
Sweny's Pharmacy. "He strolled out of the shop, the newspaper baton under his armpit, the cool wrappered soap in his left hand." – Ulysses, James Joyce (1922)
The Bank of Ireland and the National Library of Ireland. Seamus Heaney Exhibit called Listen Now Again. William Butler Yeats exhibition.
"Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead." – Seamus Heaney
Hodges Figgis bookshop founded in 1768.
Martello Tower in Sandycove
The International Dublin Writers' Festival
The International Dublin Writers' Festival6 is held every year in Dublin.7Dublin is a World Heritage City and home to some of the most famous writers. This event is an opportunity for all writers, everywhere, to connect with the literary culture of Dublin and to learn from experts and peers. Join us.
St. Patrick’s Day is one of my favorite days; also, World Book Day.8
Chris Morash, Dublin : A Writer’s City. 2023. Cambridge United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
An Irish writing professor's seven-stop literary crawl of Dublin. BBC, March, 2024.
Thank you to DW who sent me this article.
MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland – A museum of literature for the world’s greatest storytellers.
Book of Kells Experience | Trinity College Dublin (visittrinity.ie)
Many You Tube videos of festivals like this: Dublin Book Festival 2022 (youtube.com)
My dad was Irish, my mom was Spanish. Lucky me! Don Quixote & World Book Day -
Happy St Paddy's Day!
I love some of these quotes:
"Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead." – Seamus Heaney
"I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me." - Brendan Behan
Second only to Christmas (aka Yule/Winter Solstice) St Patrick's Day is my favorite holiday. I don't do much, just wear green, down a few beers, and eat boiled dinner, but it feels sort of like coming home to me. The few generations between me and my Irish ancestors in the Mother Country seem to evaporate on this day.
Happy St. Pat's Kathleen! TPAM is amazing and this post is making me think a Guinness is in order! Later :-)