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A Night in the Catacombs: Fictional Portraits of Ireland's Literati
David M. Kiely
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In this gathering of ten stories, beginning and ending over Dublin’s River Poddle, David M Kiely merges history with fiction to illuminate mysteries that have baffled literary scholars for generations. Could the interlocutor in Minot’s Tower reveal the precise nature of Dean Swift’s dementia? What odd adventures befell Goldsmith on his European excursion? Did Wolfe Tone’s brother provide a source for Maria Edgeworth’s novels? What was George Moore’s reaction to his extraordinary portrait by Manet? Was James Joyce’s secret visit to Dublin nurturing an incipient Work in Progress? Were Somerville and Ross in extra-mundane communion? It is a measure of ... Read more
In this gathering of ten stories, beginning and ending over Dublin’s River Poddle, David M Kiely merges history with fiction to illuminate mysteries that have baffled literary scholars for generations. Could the interlocutor in Minot’s Tower reveal the precise nature of Dean Swift’s dementia? What odd adventures befell Goldsmith on his European excursion? Did Wolfe Tone’s brother provide a source for Maria Edgeworth’s novels? What was George Moore’s reaction to his extraordinary portrait by Manet? Was James Joyce’s secret visit to Dublin nurturing an incipient Work in Progress? Were Somerville and Ross in extra-mundane communion? It is a measure of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781874675617
SKU
V9781874675617
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-15
About David M. Kiely
DAVID M. KIELY was born in Dublin in 1949. He has worked in advertising, returning from the continent in 1991. His first book, a biography of John Millington Synge, was published in Dublin in 1994. He lives in Wicklow.
Reviews for A Night in the Catacombs: Fictional Portraits of Ireland's Literati
A stimulating and original read… an ingenious, inventive and innovative fictional voyage with some of the major Irish writers.’ – Tom Glennon, The Irish Times ‘…deeply and wittily original and carried off with great skill in a most accomplished of debuts’ – Dermot Bolger, Sunday Tribune A stimulating and original read… an ingenious, inventive and innovative fictional voyage with some ... Read more