If you are a fan of classic literature and love a pint o' Guinness while you're reading, join us for this conversation with author & professor at Trinity College Christopher Morash as he discusses his book "Dublin: A Writer's City" which 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.

About the Book:

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.

About the author:

I am the Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing, a post dedicated to the teaching and research of Irish writing, based in the School of English. I have published a histories of Irish theatre, and of Irish media, both extending from the 17th century to the present; I have also published on Irish Famine writing, and, most recently, on theories of space in relation to theatre. I am currently working on Yeats's theatre. My research interests in the field of Irish studies thus range fairly widely over the field, with theatre and concepts of information flow as a kind of epicentre. I have also served as Chair of the Compliance Committee of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, and thus have an interest in broadcasting regulation.

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