Certainly Dubliners is a warts-and-all portrait of the city, but I think his characters were also archetypes - which is one reasons why we still find them so compelling today. The piety, roguery and vanity were and are just as strong in Trieste, Paris and Zurich, let alone Edwardian Dublin.

And, withough wishing to be mischievous, isn't there an unsaid darkness about Under Milk Wood? The faintest hints of violence, drunkenness, pederasty and fear lie just outside the firelight, I think.