Strumpet City

Strumpet City
First edition
AuthorJames Plunkett
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical fiction
PublisherHutchinson
Publication date
1969
Publication placeIreland
Pages576
ISBN0-09-918750-7

Strumpet City is a 1969 historical novel by James Plunkett set in Dublin, Ireland, around the time of the 1913 Dublin Lock-out. In 1980, it was adapted into a TV drama by Hugh Leonard for RTÉ, Ireland's national broadcaster. The novel is an epic, tracing the lives of a dozen characters as they are swept up in the tumultuous events that affected Dublin between 1907 and 1914.