It is well known that the pages of 'Joyce's Ulysses' are filled with hundreds of intriguing and quirky characters. What is less well known is that many of these characters were based on real people who inhabited 'Joyce's Dublin' and elsewhere.

In this title, Vivien Igoe leaves no stone uncovered in revealing the biographies of scores of people that had previously been deemed to be fictional, and who had been accorded little attention as a result. It provides a comprehensive A to Z of these real people with detailed information about where they lived, died and are buried; worked, intermingled and found inspiration.