Strumpet City
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Strumpet City is a 1969
, Ireland's national broadcaster. The novel is an epic, tracing the lives of a dozen characters as they are swept up in the tumultuous events that affected Dublin between 1907 and 1914.The Risen People
The novel's roots date from 1954, when Plunkett's
Reception
It was immensely popular when it was published.[citation needed] The writing is direct and powerfully evokes the over-population, the terrible poverty and the peculiar intimacy of pre-independence Dublin.[citation needed] One theme is the essential goodness of people and the tenderness which survives the brutality of deprivation. The popularity of the novel also owed something to events in Ireland in the early 1970s, as The Troubles made the more traditional iconography of the insurrectionary period troublesome, while economic stagnation and social crisis fostered empathy for the former Dublin of tenements, working class heroes and vagrant balladeers.[citation needed]
In 2013 Dublin City Libraries chose Strumpet City as its 'One City One Book' book of the year, in commemoration of the centenary of the 1913 Lockout.[7][8]
On November 5, 2019, the
References
- ^ ISBN 978-90-5183-759-9. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
- ISBN 978-1-4331-0546-3. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
- ISBN 978-0-8156-0643-7. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
- ^ "The Risen People". Abbey Theatre. 2013. Archived from the original on 26 October 2014. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
- ^ "Panti's rousing gay rights speech goes viral". BreakingNews.ie. 5 February 2014. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
- ^ Connolly, Shaun (8 February 2014). "Buttimer and Panti drown out empty rhetoric in homophobia debate". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
- ^ "Strumpet City is Dublin City Libraries' One City, One Book Choice for 2013". Gill Books. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
- ^ "Strumpet City". One Dublin One Book. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
- ^ "100 'most inspiring' novels revealed by BBC Arts". BBC News. 5 November 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
The reveal kickstarts the BBC's year-long celebration of literature.
External links
- Strumpet City is discussed in an obituary for James Plunkett in the Irish Independent
- Eileen Battersby asks: "Is Strumpet City the great Irish novel?" in The Irish Times
- 'Strumpet City': the impossible Irish novel Edited introduction by Fintan O'Toole to new edition of Strumpet City