Famous Dubliners W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Jonathan Swift, Wolfe Tone, Oscar Wilde, Edward Carson

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.