Dublin's Famous People: and Where They Lived

by JohnCowell (Author)

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  Paperback
  1996

  $4.63

  For centuries Dublin has been home, inspiration and muse to many famous people. This book gives biographies of over two hundred of them and lists their addresses. Included are

  • WRITERS such as James Joyce, J.M. Synge, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Samuel Beckett, George Bernard Shaw, Oliver Goldsmith, Elizabeth Bowen, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Anthony Trollope...
  • POETS W.B. Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh, Percy Bysshe Shelley ...
  • PLAYWRIGHTS Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan ...
  • MUSICIANS Georg Friedrich Handel, Thomas Moore, John Field, Victor Herbert, Luke Kelly, Phil Lynott ...
  • PAINTERS Sarah Purser, Walter Osborne, William Orpen, Jack B. Yeats, Francis Bacon ...
  • POLITICIANS and STATESMEN Eamon de Valera, Edward Carson, Henry Grattan, Michael Collins, Winston Churchill ...
  • REVOLUTIONARIES Countess Markievicz, Robert Emmet, James Connolly, Patrick Pearse ...

  and actors, engineers, architects, boxers, inventors, churchmen, scientists, eccentrics, lords and ladies ...