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Open BookLiterary Landscape: John Banville and 1950s DublinJohn Banville's Dublin

John Banville's Dublin

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Dawn on the River Liffey, Dublin

The river is often regarded as a dividing line through the centre of the city

  • John Banville and Mariella Frostrup outside the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin
  • Actor Owen Roe, Mariella Frostrup, John Banville and John Brannigan from University College Dublin in McDaids Bar, Dublin
  • McDaids pub, Dublin
  • Inside McDaids pub, Dublin
  • Front gates of Trinity College Dublin
  • Dawn on the River Liffey, Dublin

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  • Open Book—Literary Landscape: John Banville and 1950s Dublin

    A tour of the foggy streets, smoke-filled bars and genteel hotel tea rooms of 1950s Dublin

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