Dead as Doornails Poetry a Zurich Joyce scholar based

a Zurich Joyce scholar based in Dublin

deals with a subject that touches a nerve for most Irish people: the all-too-human circumstances of betrayal and survival

From Trinity College to the Docklands

Denis Johnston

So begins Theobald Wolfe Tone’s riveting autobiography

Dead as Doornails Poetry a Zurich Joyce scholar basedDead as Doornails, first published in 1976, is widely considered a defining classic of Irish literary memoir. Anthony Cronins account of life in post war literary Dublin is as wry, funny and colourful as one would expect from an intimate of Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh and Flann OBrien; but it is also a clear eyed and bracing antidote to the kitsch that passes for literary history and memory in the Dublin of today. Cronin writes with remarkable