Dead as Doornails Poetry largely vanished way of life

largely vanished way of life in the most majestic of settings on Ireland’s western seaboard

This might have been the end but for the campaign begun in 1974 for the canal’s restoration

and the confusion of men who

Denis Johnston

a Zurich Joyce scholar based in Dublin

Dead as Doornails Poetry largely vanished way of lifeDead as Doornails, first published in 1976, is widely considered a defining classic of Irish literary memoir. Anthony Cronins account of life in post war literary Dublin is as wry, funny and colourful as one would expect from an intimate of Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh and Flann OBrien; but it is also a clear eyed and bracing antidote to the kitsch that passes for literary history and memory in the Dublin of today. Cronin writes with remarkable