dying and rituals in Ireland
street vendors and gangs of urchins
A biographical introduction underpins the selection
the early death of his deeply depressed first wife
with essays by leading Dublin Joyceans
Denis Johnston: A Life Rare and Limited Editions dying and rituals in IrelandThis 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,