Mad, bad, dangerous to know: the fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

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An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm Tóibín __ In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Tóibín takes three of Ireland's greatest writers - Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce - and examines their earliest influences: their fathers.

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