Memories of Baggotonia : Bohemian Dublin from Wilde and Joyce to Beckett and Behan

by Lynch, Brendan

• ISBN13: 9781905785964
• ISBN10: 1905785968
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-15
• Publisher: Dufour Editions

Summary

Apart from the Left Bank in Paris, no other European city quarter boasts as many literary and artistic associations as Dublin's Baggotonia. Among its inhabitants and habitus were Nobel Prize winners, notable writers, and artists. Based on interviews and contemporary accounts, this book is the first history of the quarter.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Foreword	p. xi
Baggotonia, Dublin's Bohemia	p. 1
Light and Shade	p. 13
The Original Bohemian - John Butler Yeats	p. 25
Brendan Behan - Housepainter to Writer	p. 39
Beatrice Behan - A Love Story	p. 57
Literary Salons and Saloons	p. 69
Laughter in Court: A Literary Libel Case	p. 89
Patrick Kavanagh - A Most Unlikely Poet	p. 99
Europe's Most Literary Waterway	p. 117
Parsons Bookshop	p. 129
Brian of the Many Masks	p. 145
Bertie Smyllie - 'The Editor'	p. 163
Pen vs. Crozier - Banned in Ireland	p. 175
The Pike - A Little Theatre by the Canal	p. 191
Baggotonia's Artists	p. 205
A Pint for a Woodcut - Harry Kernoff	p. 223
Ireland's Forgotten Writer - Ernie Gebler	p. 233
Gainor Stephen Crist - The Original Ginger Man	p. 241
The United Arts Club	p. 251
Hoddy, The Pope and Owen Walsh	p. 267
Bibliography	p. 281
Index	p. 293
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