Posts Tagged ‘James Joyce’
James Joyce turns up in Dublin to celebrate Bloomsday
James Joyce is alive and well today in Dublin. He has surfaced in multiple incarnations and numerous places to celebrate the 110th anniversary of Bloomsday. That’s the day — June 16, 1904 – during which the action of Ulysses unfolds in what Joyce called “dear, dirty Dublin.” Rambling around the city today, everywhere we went,…
Read MoreRemembering James Joyce on a lesser anniversary
On this date 109 years ago — September 9, 1904 — James Joyce moved into the Martello Tower in Sandycove, a suburb of Dublin. The place is now a museum — a shrine to some of us — and I snapped the above photo a couple of months ago. Joyce arrived here uninvited, having recently…
Read More300,000 to gather in Ireland . . .
DUBLIN MIXES GUINNESS, JOYCE, AND THE STONE AGE Ireland by Ken McGoogan 300,000 people are set for the Gathering in Ireland. Some will be tracing their ancestors. Others will come to see the monasteries, or to follow in the footsteps of the writer James Joyce. Many will make their way to the Guinness Storehouse, where…
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