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Award-winning writer Colm T贸ib铆n explores the complex relationships between three of Ireland's literary giants and their fathers:

Oscar Wilde
WB Yeats
James Joyce

From Oscar Wilde's polymath father who was a doctor specialising in diseases of the eye and ear, an amateur architect, as well as a statistician who was knighted for his work; to WB Yeats' father a brilliant correspondent and impoverish artist who struggled to complete a painting; to John Stanislaus Joyce, a drinker and story-teller who was unwilling to provide for his family.

He starts by taking a literary walk around Dublin, stopping off at a variety of landmarks immortalised in the works of some of Ireland's most famous writers.

At the same time he reflects on his own writing life.

Abridged in five parts by Richard Hamilton

Producer: Elizabeth Allard

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in October 2018.