It feels like coming home. To be standing on O’Connell Street in Dublin and knowing that many great Irish authors and writers walked along these pavements is a sense of personal awe and joy for me. Then onto Easons Bookshop where on the groundfloor there were lifesize portraits of many famous Irish literary men such as John Millington Synge author of ‘The Playboy of the Western World’, 'Dierdre of the Sorrows' and many other great works, Oscar Fingal O’Flaherty Wills Wilde, Sean O’Casey, William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw. The master himself James Joyce, author of ‘The Dubliners’, ‘Finnegans Wake’, ‘Ulysses’ – the list of great writers seems endless. I could spend another lifetime here just paying homage to all of them but most of all to my late friend Patrick Declan O’Riordan who introduced Irish literature to me many years ago and made them come alive with his wonderful recitations.
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