Dubliners

UCD Adult Education Centre are offering a ten week course to tie in with Dublin: One City, One Book. Students will also read the books previously chosen for the Dublin: One City, One Book festival: Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Sebastian Barry’s A Long Long Way, Flann O’Brien’s At Swim Two Birds, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Joseph O’Connor’s Ghost Light. The focus of the course will be to situate these books as Dublin books, showing different aspects and histories of the city. The course will consider the changing place of Dublin in literature and examine different ways the city has been represented by writers. The course will build up to a sustained consideration of the Dublin: One City, One Book choice for 2012 making full use of events staged by Dublin City Libraries.

Dublin City Council is delighted to announce that the 'Dublin: One City, One Book' choice for April 2012 is Dubliners by James Joyce. The chosen title will be supported by a wide range of public events and celebrations next April.

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Previous One City, One Book novels have been Flann O’Briens’s At Swim Two Birds, Sebastian Barry’s A Long, Long Way, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor.