Author | James Plunkett |
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Language | English |
Genre | Historical fiction |
Publisher | Hutchinson |
Publication date | 1969 |
Publication place | Ireland |
Pages | 576 |
ISBN | 0-09-918750-7 |
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.