Mountjoy Publishing

The shellshocked Gunner Dan was lucky to survive both the war and the return to his Tipperary village. Over one hundred Great War veterans were murdered. The Old Gunner and His Medals relates how Dan’s unfailing optimism and zest for life enabled him to survive ostracisation. And how he becomes a village celebrity thirty years later, when he unearths his medals with the help of a schoolboy who appreciated his stories and sacrifices.

Describes Ireland's key literary movements and the generations of writers from Jonathan Swift to George Bernard Shaw and Flann O'Brien, all of whom plied their trade on or near Dublin's Grafton Street.