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Finding Mangan: The Lives and Afterlives of Ireland’s National Poet

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June 1849: Dr William Wilde, passing a wretched hovel in Dublin’s Liberties, discovers James Clarence Mangan in a state of indescribable misery and squalor. Aged just 46, the man dubbed ‘Ireland’s National Poet’ is about to succumb to the cholera epidemic that is gripping famine ravaged Ireland.

 

August 2008: Writer Bridget Hourican encounters Mangan during a Liberties lock-in with that other great Irish poet, Shane MacGowan, who found inspiration in Mangan’s poetry.

 

Alcoholic, opium addict, Romantic, Famine poet, Dublin street character and hero of James Joyce, the mercurial Mangan begins to obsess Bridget. The ... Read more

 

As the lines between research and real life become blurred, Bridget starts to notice aspects of her life bleeding into Mangan’s. An obsession becomes a haunting and she realises that the only way to truly reach Mangan is to reckon with her own ghosts.

Finding Mangan resurrects Ireland’s most enigmatic literary figuring, restoring his rightful place in the national consciousness.

 

‘Imaginative and absorbing, at last Mangan has found the perfect biographer.’ John Banville

 

‘A new, shapeshifting approach to biography . . . It reads like a dream.’ Roy Foster

 

‘I adored the writing. Its fizzing energy. Its spinning clarity. Its openhearted rigour.’ Alan McMonagle

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Gill Dublin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9780717194834
SKU
V9780717194834
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 3 to 5 working days
Ref
99-96

About Bridget Hourican
Bridget Hourican is a journalist and historian whose work has appeared in the Irish Times, Time Out and Image. She is the editor of Straight from the Heart: Irish Love Letters and a contributor to the Dictionary of Irish Biography. She lives in Dublin.

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