This work contains excerpts from diaries, letters and writings by some of Dublin's most famous names. It features Yeats: his unrequited love for Maud Gonne and her daughter Iseult; his poetry; his intense interest in the supernatural and membership of the Order of the Golden Dawn; his family - especially his painter father and brother; Joyce: Nora; the family of Giorgio and Lucia - with her schizophrenia and infatuation with Beckett; Joyce's literary friends - Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound; reactions to his work; Swift: his fatherless childhood and absent mother; the women in his life - Stella whom he met when she was eight and their suspected marriage; Vanessa who spurned him and was in turn spurned; Swift's infamous illnesses; as dean of St Patrick's Cathedral; his legacy of St Patrick's Hospital; his satires including "Gulliver's Travels". The work then features Tone: father of Irish republicanism; the uprising of 1798; treason and exile; his wife and family; the young revolutionary who died at 35; the story of his death. The final part of the text considers Wilde and Carson: one of the most famous trials in history; Wilde's wit and the love affair with Bosie; Carson's political career in Northern Ireland; his statue outside Stormont; his part in Wilde's downfall.
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Michael Stanley is the writing team of Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip. Sears was born in Johannesburg, grew up in Cape Town and Nairobi, and teaches at the University of the Witwatersrand. Trollip was also born in Johannesburg and has been on the faculty of the universities of Illinois, Minnesota, and North Dakota, and at Capella University. He divides his time between Knysna, South Africa, and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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