![]() ![]() ![]() The shop is mere steps from Davy Byrne’s pub where the fictional Leopold Bloom orders his gorgonzola sandwich and glass of burgundy – the faithful will muster here next week in period attire for their traditional 16 June “Bloomsday” walk, which marks the day depicted in the story – and from The Duke, the inn frequented in real life by Joyce and George Bernard Shaw. ![]() We celebrate the centenary of the publication of James Joyces modernist masterpiece in 1922 with this. Ulysses Rare Books was established here, rather cannily, by retired Donegal schoolteacher Enda Cunningham in 1988. Gilbert released the book in 1930, less than ten years after the publication of Ulysses, and this was the first book to introduce Joyce’s schema to the public - the Odyssean chapter titles, the associated arts and symbols that accompany each episode of Ulysses. IFI & BLOOMSDAY FILM FESTIVAL PRESENT: ULYSSES 100. To launch the Bloomsday Festival in Dun Laoghaire we are delighted to welcome the eminent Joycean scholar Terence. The blue-fronted antiquarian bookshop found “on the sunny side” of historic Duke Street didn’t exist back then, but it’s certainly on Joyceans’ map of must-sees today – especially in this, the work’s centenary year. Bloomsday Lecture 2023 The Space of Ulysses. In writing Ulysses, the modernist odyssey shaped around a single day in 1904 Dublin, James Joyce painted the city so vividly that he created a literary trail through its thoroughfares, public houses, bridges and beaches – one that devotees have enjoyed tracing ever since the novel’s publication in 1922. ![]()
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