Name: Dublin, A Writer's City Raheny
Start: 2023-04-18T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2023-04-18T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Raheny Library

Dublin, A Writer's City Raheny

Dublin is the fourth UNESCO City of Literature, one of 28 UNESCO Cities of Literature worldwide.With four Nobel prize winners (Yeats, Beckett, Shaw and Heaney), a brace of universities of global distinction in Trinity and UCD, over half a dozen books festivals, the internationally prestigious Dublin Literary Award and a world class new city library in the planning, it is without doubt that Ireland’s capital has words in its blood.The Literature designation is one of seven designations within theCreative Cities Network.To find out about future events, sign up to our newsletterhttps://dcpla.ie/city-of-literature-newsletteror sign up on our websitewww.dublincityofliterature.ie

Dublin UNESCO City of Literature

Raheny - The shining examples here, of course, are the work of Roddy Doyle and Dermot Bolger; however, there are others.

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<p>For many people, the words ‘literary Dublin’ conjure up a narrow nest of streets in the city centre, bounded by McDaid’s pub on one side, stretching perhaps as far north as the Abbey Theatre, or Seán O’Casey’s flat on Mountjoy Square at a push.  However, the vast majority of Dubliners do not live inside the canals, and it is increasingly recognised that if Dublin is really to be a city of literature, it needs to find ways of imagining the entire city, including the expanding residential areas on both the north and south sides of the city.  The shining examples here, of course, are the work of Roddy Doyle and Dermot Bolger; however, there are others.  This talk will ask: how do we imagine a literary city that is also a living, growing city?</p>

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