Présentation de l'éditeur
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 …
Biographie de l'auteur
John Cowell grew up in Sligo and, having practised as a doctor in wartime London, spent his working life with the Irish anti-tuberculosis campaign. He took part in some of the Hilton/Edwards productions and the Longford productions at the Gate Theatre. Has written several books: Where They Lived in Dublin (updated as Dublin's Famous People), Sligo, Land of Yeats’ Desire, a general history, memoir and guide to his home county, No Profit But The Name about the Longford theatre group, and a novel, The Begrudgers.
