New Dubliners

It has been over one hundred years since James Joyce wrote the celebrated stories about Dublin and its people, holding up his ‘nicely polished looking glass’ and preserving on paper a legendary snapshot of Dublin, 1904.

But would Joyce recognise the Dublin of today? New Dubliners presents twelve individual, contemporary Dublins, each fresh from the pen of a leading Irish author, each a vivid portrait of Dublin 100 years on.

Dense with quiet epiphanies and tautened by a peculiar grace, New Dubliners, like the city it honours, is a unique collection: startling, evocative, and, like the original, deeply human.

Contributors:

• Ivy Bannister
• Maeve Binchy
• Dermot Bolger
• Roddy Doyle
• Anthony Glavin
• Desmond Hogan
• Bernard MacLaverty
• Colum McCann
• Frank McGuinness
• Joseph O’Connor
• Clare Boylan