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 ...

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, 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 ...

I was sitting in the champagne bar of the hotel when I finally caught the baffling spirit of Kiev. Not that I had had much to drink. I was just thinking about the city and looking forward to a small ...

Strayman, a spontaneous poet, is landlord to a pack of stray dogs. Unable to resist another of life's strays, he hooks up with Strumpet, a shy, homeless girl with an extraordinary gift for music.

In an interview for 'Writer in Profile' from 1970 James Plunkett talks to Niall Sheridan about what he sees as the function of literature and says that he cannot explain the success of 'Strumpet City' ...

Pretty, witty Nelly Gwynn was an unusual woman for her time. An accomplished, yet illiterate actress in 17th-century London, Nell rose from her dirt-poor childhood to become star of the stage to ...

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.