The Winding Stair
The Winding Stair is an historic bookshop in Dublin, Ireland. It has long been a place for writers to convene. The building was built in 1875. It is yellow and stands beside the river Liffey and the Ha’penny bridge. The book shop opened in 1982, named for its winding staircase, and in tribute to W.B. Yeats, after his poem The Winding Stair. In the late ’90s, I attended a poetry reading there by Seamus Heaney and…
