The award-winning Dublin: One City, One Book initiative "encourages everyone to read a book connected with the capital city during the month of April every year". In The Works' package, Father Peter ...

STRUMPET City, the novel recounting dramatic events of Dublin's 1913 Lockout, has become the most borrowed book in city libraries. Dublin City Libraries had nominated the celebrated novel by James ...

Strumpet City is the impossible Irish novel. The great master of the short story, Frank O'Connor, writing in 1942, claimed that it was simply not possible to write a social novel in Ireland. In Russia ...

April will see a host of events promoting Plunkett's masterpiece LOVERS of literature will have a feast to savour from tomorrow as James Plunkett's Strumpet City is celebrated in the Dublin: One City, ...

Tributes have been paid to the Dublin actor Frank Grimes, best known for his roles in Strumpet City and Coronation Street, following his death at the age of 78. The Irish Cultural Centre (ICC) in ...

Welcome to the very special St Patrick’s Day edition of the IrishCentral book club! This month, we decided to look back to a classic Irish book you may not yet have had the chance to read, picking up ...

Strumpet City was a 1980 television miniseries produced by Irish broadcaster RTÉ, based on James Plunkett's 1969 novel Strumpet City. It was RTÉ's most ambitious and expensive production to date. The ...

James Plunkett, who died on Tuesday aged 83, achieved his greatest commercial and critical success with Strumpet City (1969), an epic novel set against the Dublin lockout of 1913, and which inspired, ...

The best-selling novel by James Plunkett was adapted by Hugh Leonard and was a watershed production for RTÉ in terms of budget, attracting a huge audience when it aired in 1980. Set in Dublin between ...

IF ULYSSESIS Dublin's odyssey, Strumpet Cityis Dublin's epic. James Plunkett's panoramic masterpiece is shaped by the Joyce of Dublinersbut also by the social realism of Dickens and above all, Zola.