With a foreword by J.P. Donleavy. The best book about literary Dublin ever written' -- FRANK DELANEY. Edna O'Brien chose John Ryan's memoirs as her Observer Book of the Year in 1975, describing it as a fine and loving account of literary Dublin in...
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With a foreword by J.P. Donleavy. The best book about literary Dublin ever written' -- FRANK DELANEY. Edna O'Brien chose John Ryan's memoirs as her Observer Book of the Year in 1975, describing it as a fine and loving account of literary Dublin in the golden fifties', which purrs with life and anecdote'. This classic evocation of the period 1945-55 celebrates a city and its personalities -- Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh, Myles na gCopaleen (Flann O'Brien), as well as Pope' O'Mahony, Gainor Crist the original Ginger Man, and others -- a remarkable group who were to revitalize post-war literat
Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Epigraph; Foreword; Introduction; PART ONE : The Time and the Place; 1 : The Fair City; 2 : O What a Lovely Emergency! (1939-1945); 3 : Behind the Emerald Curtain; 4 : Distilled Damnation, or Bacchus and his Pardners; 5 : Overtures and Beginners; 6 : Liffeysiders; 7 : In the Joyce Country; PART TWO : The Personalities; 8 : The Home and Colonial Boy; 9 : The Lost Umbilical Chord; 10 : Paddy Kavanagh; 11 : The Incomparable Myles; 12 : The Man From Ohio; 13 : Remembering How We Stood; 14 : The Swan in the Evening; A, B, C; Index
D, E, FG, H, I; J, K, L; M, N, O; P, Q, R; S, T, U; V, W, X; Y, Z; Plates; About the Author; Copyright;