Dead as Doornails Poetry in which C

in which C

This might have been the end but for the campaign begun in 1974 for the canal’s restoration

follows upon Windfalls (Dolmen 1977)

Con Leventhal and Nevill Johnson (each a personal friend of the author’s)

Cocker and Kearny spend their first summer of freedom in a savage apprenticeship on the streets of Dublin

Dead as Doornails Poetry in which CDead 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