The bespectacled James Joyce statue on North Earl Street in Dublin, affectionately called “The Prick with the Stick.” Courtesy of Katie Lynch. It’s a bit of an odd thing to experience the real-life ...

This museum is dedicated to Dublin's literary history and features exhibits of such iconic Irish writers as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, and Samuel Beckett. The James Joyce Centre , 35 N Great George ...

Elegant parade. 2004 was the year of excess. The ReJoyce Dublin festival lasted five months. It culminated in a breakfast (sausages, toast, beans, pudding) for 10,000 people on O'Connell Street.

Yes, this UNESCO City of Literature already has the Dublin Writers Museum, The Old Library of Trinity College Dublin, and The James Joyce Center.But MoLI—which opened in September—yields ...

DUBLIN — James Joyce famously left his native Dublin at the age of 22 and then spent the rest of his life writing about the city, sending characters to wander its slums, back streets and faded ...

As the museum label next to the oil on canvas work which hangs in Dublin's National Gallery recounts, between 1851-1855 some 800,000 Irish left the country from Dublin Bay.

15 Usher's Island, Dublin 8, the house that served as the setting for James Joyce's famous short story "The Dead," is to be turned into a 54-bed hostel, despite a planning appeal from ...

Joyce, the eldest of a Dublin family of… James Joyce “Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.” So observed W.H. Auden of William Butler Yeats, Ireland’s leading poet of the 20th century.

Inspired by the journey of James Joyce’s character of Leopold Bloom through Dublin on June 16, 1904, Leopold's Day released a carefully designed map of Dublin city formed purely from the people ...

"Good puzzle would be to cross Dublin without passing a pub" So thought Leopold Bloom in James Joyce's Ulysses. Almost a century later, the puzzle has been solved by Rory McCann - after a number ...

His greatest creation, the novel "Ulysses," takes place in Dublin on June 16, 1904 -- Dublin as it existed on that day. One of the important locations in the story is No. 7 Eccles St., a real ...