He is the author of five books including the novels "The 13th Apostle: A Novel of Michael Collins and the Irish Uprising," "Terrible Angel: A Novel of Michael Collins in New York," "Our Lady of Greenwich Village," and two nonfiction works: "Irish Miscellany" and "The Little Book of I...
Sherlock Holmes — who celebrates his 125th birthday in 2013 — shows no signs of slowing down. Author Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous creation, who first appeared in the 1887 murder mystery novelA Study in Scarlet, has had a long life in books and on radio, in television and stage adap...
1847:Dracula author Bram Stoker is born in Dublin. Bram Stoker 1847-1912 . Stoker was bed-ridden for much of his childhood, but lived a relatively healthy life during his adulthood. Educated at Trinity College, he moved to London in 1878 and married actress Florence Balcombe.Draculareceived so...
Fangs but No Fangs: Bid to Honour Author of Dracula Falls Victim to Irish Cash WoesWe'll have the statue if you pay, Dublin city fathers tell Bram Stoker's descendants. David McKittrick reportsMcKittrick, David
- Leonard Wibberley, Irish author of comic novel "The Mouse That Roared" "I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess." - Gregory Peck "When I get a very generous introduction like that, I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish and the Irish...
Particular focus will be given to racial descriptors of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon races, operating within a nineteenthcentury colonial context. These observations will be applied to a well-known finde-siecle novel written by an Irish author, Bram Stoker's Dracula (first published in 1897). This ...
Part III: Irish Gothic, Theology, and Confessional Identities8.Protestant Gothic – Alison Milbank9. Bram Stoker,Dracula, and the Irish Dimension – Jarlath Killeen10. Men and Woman in Cloaks: Irish Catholic Writers and the Gothic – Sinéad Sturgeon ...
Among their rank are short story writer Brendan Behan, novelist Bram Stoker ("Dracula"), playwrights J.M. Synge ("The Playboy of the Western World"), Sean O'Casey ("Juno and the Paycock," and Oscar Wilde ("The Importance of Being Earnest"). This doesn't include the four Nobel Prize...
Bram Stoker is a famous Irish author - but which famous book did he write? Dracula Peter Pan Alice in Wonderland Frankenstein 7/15 Who was Grace O' Malley? A famous scientist An Irish painter A pirate The Mayor of Cork 8/15 Which of these is NOT a famous Irish pers...
Long-lost story by Dracula author Bram Stoker unearthed at National Library of Ireland Gibbet Hill, the Irish writer’s macabre tale of a man set upon by strange children at the site of a real murder, was discovered by Dublin researcher Brian Cleary Sat Oct 19 2024 - 00:00...