Strumpet City

James Plunkett, although not a great stylist, enriches his profound knowledge of working-class Irish history with a great love for the city of Dublin and a sympathy for all its inhabitants, from the wealthy to the poor. As a consequence, this novel about the 1913 Lock-out is wise and often very movi......more

"Strumpet City" is an Irish social novel published in 1969, that is good 50 years too late. When everyone was waist deep in post-modernist adventures, this novel tries to warm the hearts for a battle and does it in an earnest and unpretentious way. Like with any other social novel, whether it's Stei......more

In addition to being my May Book Club read, Strumpet City is the chosen book for Dublin, One City, One Book, an initiative of Dublin City Council. Further information on this initiative can be found at [URL not allowed] Like many others, I watched Hugh Leonard’s adaptation of James Plun......more

In preparation for a forthcoming trip to Dublin I decided to reread this favourite and I have to say I enjoyed it even more than my first reading of it 7 years ago. It was like returning to long-lost friends. Such a fantastic novel filled with great characters, and importantly it shines a light on a......more

A very moving and personalised telling of the affects of the 1913 Dublin Lock-out No harsh reality around the poverty of the time is held back, a book that is as graphic as it is explicit. A profoundly moving story of the events leading up to and the devastating affects of not just the lock-out but th......more