On this day in 1897.
Bram Stoker‘s Dracula was published
Of things past writes:
Did you know the manuscript was first titled ‘The Un-Dead,’ and Count Dracula was originally Count Wampyr?
We did not.
Fang you very much.
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…the vampire theme was very strong in Irish literature at that time…starting with Sheridan leFanu but especially Joyce…Dubliners is all about vampirism…
My youngest is mad into Dracula, I had to bring him down to Marino to show him Bram Stoker’s house and then up to Ballybough to show him where the graves were at the end of the Clonliffe Road….I should probably sleep with one eye open.
that crescent of houses in marino that stoker grew up in was built as a ‘spite fence’ by a gent who was owed money by Lord Charlemont who built the Casino. Apparently Charlemont wouldn’t pay up and yer man built it to block Charlemont’s view down to the sea, which would have come up to the shoreline where fairview park is now.
Charlemont took the bucko to court and lost – it was the first ruling in irish law which stated that you are entitled to light and to privacy but not a view.
so there now.
Yeah, I’d heard that before right enough, I think when we were doing the Casino tour… I told the youngfella but, as nobody died in a horrible fashion he wasn’t as interested.