Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin

50th Anniversary Edition

Éamonn MacThomáis author Michael O'Brien illustrator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:O'Brien Press Ltd

Published:30th Sep '24

Should be back in stock very soon

Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin cover

50th Anniversary Edition 

A beautifully presented and attractively laid out commemorative edition, with new introductions by Ivan O’Brien, MD of The O’Brien Press and best-selling author Dónal Fallon.

The very first book published by The O’Brien Press in 1974 celebrates fifty years in print.

The O’Brien Press launched its first publication in November 1974. Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin, written by Éamonn MacThomáis and published while the author was in jail, was an immediate success and has become a classic. Full of historical facts, anecdotes and Dublin wit, this book evokes the spirit, the characters and colours, the sights, sounds and even the smells of old Dublin. With sections on markets, pawn shops, street characters, the Liberties, slang and wit of Dublin’s newspapers, the city’s history is traced right back to Brian Boru, the Huguenots, ‘the debtors’ prison', and Dublin's troubled history of risings and revolutions.

Celebrating fifty years of Me Jewel & Darlin’ Dublin – and of The O’Brien Press.

Many books have been written about various aspects of Dublin, but none has captured the atmosphere of the living city so well as Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin

* The Irish Press *

MacThomáis makes the city sing with his uncanny ear for the voices and sounds that give it its uniqueness. A book to treasure.

* Sunday Independent *

those yet to engage with the book are in for a treat, as it is a truly unique piece of writing, in the mould of James Joyce and Flann O’Brien

-- History Ireland Magazine

Éamonn Mac Thomáis takes us on a colourful romp across the city - north, south, east and west and across the river Liffey - telling us many intimate stories about the history, the characters and the places they inhabited. The written material is greatly enhanced by the great variety of illustrations in the book, particularly the line drawings by Michael O’Brien … full of human interest, anecdotes and colour which more than justifies the publication of its 50th anniversary edition, hopefully to be enjoyed, as it was by me, by many present and future generations’ 

-- Irish Labour History Society’s Saothar Journal, Des Gera

ISBN: 9781788495325

Dimensions: 220mm x 150mm x 18mm

Weight: 297g

208 pages

4th Revised edition