Dublin's Famous People - John Cowell

For centuries Dublin has been home, inspiration and muse to many famous people. This book gives biographies of over two hundred of them and lists their addresses. Included are
WRITERS such as James Joyce, J.M. Synge, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Samuel Beckett, George Bernard Shaw, Oliver Goldsmith, Elizabeth Bowen, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Anthony Trollope...
POETS W.B. Yeats,
Patrick Kavanagh, Percy Bysshe Shelley ...
PLAYWRIGHTS Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan ...
MUSICIANS Georg Friedrich Handel, Thomas Moore, John Field, Victor Herbert, Luke Kelly, Phil Lynott ...
PAINTERS Sarah Purser, Walter Osborne, William Orpen, Jack B. Yeats, Francis Bacon ...
POLITICIANS and STATESMEN Eamon de Valera, Edward Carson, Henry Grattan, Michael Collins, Winston Churchill ...
REVOLUTIONARIES Countess Markievicz, Robert Emmet, James Connolly, Patrick Pearse ...
and actors, engineers, architects, boxers, inventors, churchmen, scientists, eccentrics, lords and ladies ....