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MINISTERIAL LAUNCH FOR FIRST HISTORY OF DUBLIN’S “LEFT BANK”
Minister of State for Gaeltacht Affairs, Dinny McGinley, last week (Nov 15) launched the first history of Dublin’s “Left Bank” of writers and artists.
The first history of Dublin’s Bohemia and the first to celebrate Dublin’s UNESCO City of Literature award, PRODIGALS AND GENIUSES - The Writers and Artists of Dublin’s Baggotonia features a photograph of Monaghan poet Patrick Kavanagh on its cover. The book describes the authors and artists who inhabited the area around Baggot Street and the city’s Georgian quarter. These ranged from Oscar Wilde and George Moore to Samuel Beckett, Brendan Behan and Maeve Binchy, and included no fewer than four winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Minister described a PRODIGALS as a “wonderful celebration of national treasures”. He praised author Brendan Lynch’s “insightful, thoughtful and informed writing” which would bring the writers to a whole new audience.
Brendan Lynch said; “Outside of Paris, there is no city area anywhere in the world which saw such a concentration of talent. These hard-working and frequently deprived men and women were real patriots. Without bombs of guns, they brought honour to Ireland and promoted us internationally. Their work spans the generations and the continents. I have been privileged to record their activities and the wonderful area in which they toiled.”
Describing the 300-page work as a magnificently produced record, Foreword writer J P Donleavy said; "Brendan Lynch’s book evokes vibrant memories of an ancient Dublin. And could there be any other city in the world more worth speaking about? Old friends come back to life whose minds still speak from the soul. Ancient sorrows remembered to haunt, but in which a bit of bright light still glows.”
The large attendance included writers Eoin O’Brien, Ulick O’Connor, Joyce biographer, Peter Costello and Peter McDonnell, of the Monaghan Association.Dublin Writers Centre curator, Robert Nicholson. Signed copies of the book may be obtained from the author at; mrg|_lynch@yahoo.ie
Ends; (Margie Lynch 01 830 2511)
PHOTO SHOWS (Left to Right); Brendan Lynch, Mrs Margie Lynch and Minister Dinny McGinley
PHOTO SHOWS: Peter McDonnell (left) who represented The Monaghan Association at the book launch.
 Minister of State for Gaeltacht Affairs, Dinny McGinley, last week (Nov 15) launched the first history of Dublin’s “Left Bank” of writers and artists.
The first history of Dublin’s Bohemia and the first to celebrate Dublin’s UNESCO City of Literature award, PRODIGALS AND GENIUSES - The Writers and Artists of Dublin’s Baggotonia features a photograph of Monaghan poet Patrick Kavanagh on its cover. The book describes the authors and artists who inhabited the area around Baggot Street and the city’s Georgian quarter. These ranged from Oscar Wilde and George Moore to Samuel Beckett, Brendan Behan and Maeve Binchy, and included no fewer than four winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Minister described a PRODIGALS as a “wonderful celebration of national treasures”. He praised author Brendan Lynch’s “insightful, thoughtful and informed writing” which would bring the writers to a whole new audience.
Brendan Lynch said; “Outside of Paris, there is no city area anywhere in the world which saw such a concentration of talent. These hard-working and frequently deprived men and women were real patriots. Without bombs of guns, they brought honour to Ireland and promoted us internationally. Their work spans the generations and the continents. I have been privileged to record their activities and the wonderful area in which they toiled.”
Describing the 300-page work as a magnificently produced record, Foreword writer J P Donleavy said; "Brendan Lynch’s book evokes vibrant memories of an ancient Dublin. And could there be any other city in the world more worth speaking about? Old friends come back to life whose minds still speak from the soul. Ancient sorrows remembered to haunt, but in which a bit of bright light still glows.”
The large attendance included writers Eoin O’Brien, Ulick O’Connor, Joyce biographer, Peter Costello and Peter McDonnell, of the Monaghan Association.Dublin Writers Centre curator, Robert Nicholson. Signed copies of the book may be obtained from the author at; mrg|_lynch@yahoo.ie
PHOTO SHOWS (Left to Right); Brendan Lynch, Mrs Margie Lynch and Minister Dinny McGinley
PHOTO SHOWS: Peter McDonnell (left) who represented The Monaghan Association at the book launch.
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