Oh: The Little Book of Literary Dublin, Gebunden

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From the elegant squares of Georgian Dublin to the bustling streets around Temple Bar and the River Liffey, Dublin is a city shaped by stories. Its history and character have inspired some of the world's greatest writers, and this little book explores the places, people and works that helped establish the Irish capital as one of the world's great literary cities.

Encounter poets, playwrights and novelists including James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, and visit the pubs, theatres and streets that shaped their lives and work. Step inside Trinity Library, one of the most beautiful in the world, and discover St Patrick's Cathedral, where Jonathan Swift served as Dean and found inspiration for Gulliver's Travels . Enjoy a pint of Guinness at McDaid's - a pub once frequented by Brendan Behan and Flann O'Brien - and explore Trinity College Dublin, the backdrop to Sally Rooney's acclaimed early novels. Browse through the books in the third-oldest bookshop in the world, Hodges Figgis, and take it all in at the Museum of Literature Ireland - which holds immersive exhibitions celebrating Irish writers and literary culture, including Joyce's famous "Copy No. 1" of Ulysses .

Blending literary history, colourful anecdotes and wise and witty quotes, The Little Book of Literary Dublin is an entertaining introduction to the writers, landmarks and stories that have been written large in the cityscape.

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"A good puzzle would be to cross Dublin without passing a pub."
James Joyces, Ulysses , 1922

"Dublin is extraordinarily beautiful to her in wet weather, the way grey stone darkens to black, and rain moves over the grass and whispers on slick roof tiles."
Sally Rooney, Normal People , 2018

Sweny's Pharmacy on Lincoln Place is forever associated with James Joyce's Ulysses , where Leopold Bloom famously stops to buy lemon soap. With its wooden cabinets and old-world atmosphere, the small Victorian chemist shop still survives today - and has become a pilgrimage site for Joyce enthusiasts from around the world.

Unveiled in 1997, Danny Osborne's Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture in Merrion Square is a collection of three statues commemorating the Dublin-born writer. The central sculpture shows Wilde reclining languidly on a vast 35-tonne quartz boulder carved from stone taken from the Wicklow Mountains. Holding a bronze flower in one hand, Wilde wears his famous mischievous smile.