Dublin was designated as UNESCO City of Literature in July 2010 and our very own Aideen Carroll was asked to comment on the news:

Literature is part of Dublin, it's all around us. The people, buildings, streets, names and places that inhabit the works of Joyce, O'Casey, Yeats, Beckett, Swift, Synge, Behan, Kavanagh and many more have made Irish literature known, respected and loved internationally. Some of our writers are iconic images in themselves. Finally is it a linguistic accident that the search engine YAHOO has taken its name from Gulliver's Travels?

Aideen Carroll, author of Seán Moylan: Rebel Leader