Elizabeth Bowen 1899-1973 writer was born and spent her first seven winters in this house

This post by Stephen Regan, Professor of English at Durham University on the Oxford University Press blog [published 7/6/12] gives more context on Bowen's early life in Dublin and her reflections on it as a writer, located more broadly in the context of European literary modernism:http://blog.oup.com/2012/06/elizabeth-bowen-european-modernism-irish-consciousness/