Famous Dubliners: W.B Yeats, James Joyce, Jonathan Swift, Wolfe Tone, Oscar Wilde, Edward Carson

Name: Famous Dubliners: W.B Yeats, James Joyce, Jonathan Swift, Wolfe Tone, Oscar Wilde, Edward Carson
Brand: Merlin Publishing
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By Michael Stanley

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This work contains excerpts from diaries, letters and writings by some of Dublin's most famous names. It features Yeats: his unrequited love for Maud Gonne and her daughter Iseult; his poetry; his intense interest in the supernatural and membership of the Order of the Golden Dawn; his family - especially his painter father and brother; Joyce: Nora; the family of Giorgio and Lucia - with her schizophrenia and infatuation with Beckett; Joyce's literary friends - Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound; reactions to his work; Swift: his fatherless childhood and absent mother; the women in his life - Stella whom he met when she was eight and their suspected marriage; Vanessa who spurned him and was in turn spurned; Swift's infamous illnesses; as dean of St Patrick's Cathedral; his legacy of St Patrick's Hospital; his satires including "Gulliver's Travels". The work then features Tone: father of Irish republicanism; the uprising of 1798; treason and exile; his wife and family; the young revolutionary who died at 35; the story of his death. The final part of the text considers Wilde and Carson: one of the most famous trials in history; Wilde's wit and the love affair with Bosie; Carson's political career in Northern Ireland; his statue outside Stormont; his part in Wilde's downfall.

Product details

Binding:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

288

Release Date:

1996-03-31

Publication Date:

1996-03-31

Publisher:

Merlin Publishing

Languages:

Published: English, Original: English

ISBN10:

086327532X

Weight:

476 g

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