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IN SEARCH OF DUBLIN'S LITERARY HEROES.(Stars)

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From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
Date: 20060827
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Byline: Laura T. Ryan, Staff writer

Even before the wheels of our Aer Lingus jet lifted up off the runway at Kennedy International Airport, Ireland's literary legacy made its presence felt. There, stitched into the upholstery of the seatback in front of me, were the words of Oscar Wilde ("We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" ), William Butler Yeats ("I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree" ), as well as James Joyce, John Millington Synge, Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett.

As the plane flew ...

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