What Did I Die Of? Book cover type:Paperback Macbain finds himself in a

Macbain finds himself in a precarious niche: the borderland between upstairs and downstairs

Before too long the local electrician came canvassing the area for the job of wiring the houses

Ó ÑDavid Dickson

He takes to the open harbour in a tiny punt

now celebrated in annual John Broderick Weekends instituted by the Athlone Rotary Club in 1999

What Did I Die Of? Book cover type:Paperback Macbain finds himself in aMedicine and literature are the unifying strands in this skilfully wrought tapestry of Irish biographical portraiture. It delineates the pioneering 18th century Limerick surgeon Sylvester OHalloran, his contemporary Oliver Goldsmith MD, Dublins Milton editor Edward Hill, and the polymath Sir William Wilde; the deaths respectively of his celebrated son, Oscar, Charles Stewart Parnell and J. M. Synge are anatomized, as are the lives of the forgotten