Dead as Doornails by Anthony Cronin

Dead as Doornails by Anthony CroninDead as Doornails, first published in 1976, brings back into print a true classic of Irish memoir. Anthony Cronins account of life in post war literary Dublin is as funny and colourful as one would expect from an intimate of Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh and Myles na Gopaleen; but it is also a clear eyed and bracing antidote to the kitsch that passes for literary history and memory in the Dublin of today. Cronin writes with remarkable subtlety of

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' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS

The picture book debut from talented author/illustrator Tyler Feder

ecstatic and rhapsodic

Irish poet Pat Ingoldsby sold his books of poems for twenty years (1995-2015) sitting on a crate in the centre of Dublin city

you will love it' Daisy Johnson

During this time she married Ted Hughes and traveled with him to Paris and Spain

With the rigorous scholarship he brought to his influential Orientalism and shaped by his own life in exile in New York

And in later works such as 'Death Register'

sexuality and the care of the self and others

An unforgettable novel from one of our finest writers

to bring to her grandad