DUBLIN A PORTRAIT

ISBN: 0701207507

Author: Pritchett, V.S.

Condition: Used

"Mostly Dublin as it was, in text, as it is, in photographs. Mr. Prichett...provides a historical perspective, indeed devotes himself to this to the near exclusion of current sights. These he leaves to Miss Hofer, whose portraits of aged revolutionaries, mods, seminaries speak a thousand words, whose delineations of Mountjoy Square, the Port are exquistely etched & tinged. The Earl of Wicklow, Lord Mayne, Sean OFaolain, the death mask of James Joyce ~ high great names; Trinity College, Kilmainham Jail ~ historical presences are here. Taking as his main theme the relations with the Englich, Mr. Pritchett notes that "the inevitable politics remain, but the quarrel is over." "A rare ethos prevails"...as does a sense of the past as present in this surperior volume."