Dead As Doornails

Dead as Doornails, first published in 1976, brings back into print a true classic of Irish memoir. Anthony Cronin’s account of life in post-war literary Dublin is funny and colourful, but also a clear-eyed and bracing antidote to the kitsch that passes for literary history and memory in the Dublin of today.

Dead as Doornails, first published in 1976, brings back into print a true classic of Irish memoir. Anthony Cronin’s account of life in post-war literary Dublin is funny and colourful, but also a clear-eyed and bracing antidote to the kitsch that passes for literary history and memory in the Dublin of today.