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When the writer Brendan Lynch strolled down Grafton Street a couple of years ago, the “old ghosts” of Patrick Kavanagh’s poem On Raglan Road haunted his every footstep and he decided to make them the subject of his latest literary assignment.
This short Irish film "Joyce's Dublin" takes a closer look at the places around Ireland's capital that had an impact on the literary legend's life. "Joyce's Dublin" is now available to stream for free via the Irish Film Institute's IFI Archive Player.
Irish artist and writer Christy Brown, born on this day in 1932, is remembered by many people as a character played by Daniel Day-Lewis in the movie "My Left Foot."
That the past belongs to the personalities around one, rather than to oneself, is a dominant theme in Eoin O’Brien’s memoir A Life in Medicine: From Asclepius to Beckett
Allegedly, Brendan Behan's last words were “Sister, may all your sons be bishops.” Apocryphal or not, that story, unjustly, sums up the life of the writer. Irish writer Brendan Behan was born in Dublin on February 9, 1923 - here, a look at his life.