"Gerald Dawe observes in the concluding lines of Dreaming of Home that the writers he admires most are those who convey a sense of Those same words could apply to Dawe himself. His readings of seven writers here - Sean O'Casey, W.B. Yeats, John Montague, Patrick Kavanagh, Derek Mahon, Colette Bryce, and Gail McConnell - are animated as much by the sheer joy of reading as by the need to analyse or explain. This is not just a wise book, but a joyous one." (Chris Morash, MRIA, FTCD Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing, TCD) ...
"Gerald Dawe observes in the concluding lines of Dreaming of Home that the writers he admires most are those who convey a sense of
