Word: dublin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DUBLIN: A PORTRAIT by V. S. Pritchett. Photographs by Evelyn Hofer. 99 pages. Harper...
...photographs in this distinguished and expensive book on Dublin are sheer poetry. The text achieves an even rarer quality; it is sheer prose, in the best sense of the term...
Pritchett, who has written about Spain, Latin America and the U.S., relishes foreign lands, is at ease on many social levels, and has a keen ear for class. Though no Irishman will be found to admit it, all this qualifies Pritchett to be the best historian of Dublin since James Joyce-who was, of course, a Dubliner, though he scraped its mud off his boots at 22 and returned but twice in the rest of his life...
Pritchett went to Dublin for the first time as a boy reporter during the civil war, and he is knowledgeable about the "Troubles." Even so, he has already been reproached by Irish critics of the book, on its appearance in England, for having misunderstood the city. This must have given Pritchett great pleasure, as it confirms one of his points about Dubliners: along with the celebrated wit, malice to all is one of their qualities. So is secrecy. Having asked the whereabouts of an old friend, he got this reply: "I have no treasonable information...
...WALK ON THE WATER, about a group of ineffectual Irish revolutionaries, by Playwright Hugh Leonard, will have its American debut at the Playhouse, Boothbay, Me., Aug. 22-26, after a successful run in Dublin...