Well yes, but without being mischievous either - he didn't call his book Great Injustices that Happen Everywhere - he called it Dubliners.

I live just down the road from road from Eastwood. I married a local girl. When I first came to this area nearly forty years ago, I couldn't believe how reviled DH Lawrence was still, amongst the common people. My wife's Great Aunt Polly who was 98 and claimed to have known DH and his family, called him a randy bugger. Whilst my future father in law confided that he had a bit of a reputation locally as an arsehole bandit. My mother in law assured me this was just rough miners talk about anybody with an education.

Theres a Lawrence snackery nowadays and they have preserved his birthplace, but theres still the underlying feeling that he was someone who thought himself above his fellow citizens.

I just think the Irish have been nicer and more forgiving to James Joyce - whom I think harboured just as many uncharitable thoughts.