Travel Reference
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LITERARY ADDRESSES
Merrion Sq has long been the favoured address of Dublin's affluent intelligentsia. Oscar Wilde spent much of his
youth at 1 North Merrion Sq, now the campus of the American College Dublin. Grumpy WB Yeats (1865-1939)
lived at 52 East Merrion Sq and later, from 1922 to 1928, at 82 South Merrion Sq. George (AE) Russell
(1867-1935), the self-described 'poet, mystic, painter and cooperator', worked at No 84. The great Liberator,
Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847) was a resident of No 58 in his later years. Austrian Erwin Schrödinger
(1887-1961), co-winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics, lived at No 65 from 1940 to 1956. Dublin seems to
attract writers of horror stories, and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), who penned the vampire classic
Camilla
,
was a resident of No 70.
