Remembering How We Stood Ryan, John €10.99 ISBN: 978 1 84351 142 7 Format: Size: Publication Date: June 2008 eBook Version (available from following ebook stores): Physical Copy (supplied by Lilliput Press) Add to Basket View Shopping Basket

With a foreword by J.P. Donleavy

The best book about literary Dublin ever written' - FRANK DELANEY

Edna O'Brien chose John Ryan's memoirs as her Observer Book of the Year in 1975, describing it as a fine and loving account of literary Dublin in the golden fifties', which purrs with life and anecdote'.

This classic evocation of the period 1945-55 celebrates a city and its personalities - Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh, Myles na gCopaleen (Flann O'Brien), as well as Pope' O'Mahony, Gainor Crist the original Ginger Man, and others - a remarkable group who were to revitalize post-war literature in Ireland.

As friend, publisher and fellow artist, Ryan paints a vivid picture of this ebullient, fertile milieu: No more singular body of characters will ever rub shoulders again at any given time, or a city more uniquely bizarre than literary Dublin will ever be seen.'

As one reads his words, dressed in their wonderful fi nery of irony, the world he speaks of reblossoms to be back again awhile. To see, feel and smell the Dublin of that day; a masterpiece of reminiscence' - from the foreword by J.P. Donleavy