For its modest size, Dublin city has produced a remarkable number of literary giants through the years. It is hard to say just what it is about Ireland’s capital that has prompted writers such as James Joyce and William Butler Yeats to produce such great works.
These are just two of the great names in writing the city has produced. Others include Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, and more recently, Roddy Doyle.
If you want to get a taste of Dublin’s literary heritage the best place to start is the Dublin Writers Museum on Parnell Square. You can see displays of the great writers’ books, letters and personal items.
It tells the story of Irish writing over the past three hundred years and gives a detailed insight into the life and times of Ireland’s great writers.
If you want to see how one of Ireland’s greatest writers, James Joyce, lived, you can visit one of his former Dublin homes with a trip to the James Joyce Museum in Sandycove. This beautiful seaside tower provides a splendid backdrop to the story of Joyce himself. His stay here clearly inspired the beginning of one of his most famous works, Ulysses. You can see many of his personal belongings and learn of the details of his life here.
And if you are in Dublin on June 16, you can experience Bloomsday which is a day of celebration of Joyce’s life held every year. On the other side of the city, you can visit the birthplace of George Bernard Shaw, another famous Irish writer.
This Victorian house has been restored to its appearance as it would have been when Shaw was born and gives an interesting insight into Dublin life of the time.
Dublin’s literary heritage is everywhere and after exploring its literary history for a day, why not enjoy a pint of Guinness at one of the pubs frequented by Dublin’s writers. Grogans on Castle Street is a good example of a pub that has been popular with Dublin writers over the years.
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