with essays by leading Dublin Joyceans
grief and republican violence are just some of the potent elements in a novel that shatters sexual and stylistic convention to probe to the heart of what it means to simply be yourself in a world where everybody wants you to be something you're not
a folklore collector
they are grouped into four categories: buildings that no longer exist
the early death of his deeply depressed first wife
Denis Johnston: A Life Rare and Limited Editions with essays by leading DublinThis is the first biography of Denis Johnston, barrister, theatre director, film maker, pioneering television producer, war correspondent, essayist and celebrated playwright. Johnston was of Ulster Presbyterian stock, born into Edwardian Dublin, where he was briefly held hostage in his family home at Lansdowne Road during the 1916 Rising. Son of a Supreme Court judge, he was schooled at St Andrews in Dublin, in Edinburgh and Christs College,