"One City, One Book" – what 5 cities chose to read

5. Dublin: “Ghost Light,” by Joseph O’Connor

The Irish capital has a rich literary history – writers Jonathan Swift, W. B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, and James Joyce were all born in Dublin. Every April the Dublin City Public Libraries plan events to promote one book. This year, Irish novelist Joseph O’Connor’s Ghost Light headlined. The love story is loosely based on that of a young, aspiring actress and a tortured Irish playwright. Next year’s book has already been selected: Dublin will be reading Joyce’s “Dubliners” in 2012.

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