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Dear subscribers,
We are happy to announce our new walking tours for Bloomsday Festival 2023! What better way is there to experience Bloomsday than by walking the very streets of Dublin written about with so much care and verve in Ulysses and Joyce’s other works?
For Bloomsday week, we are offering four different walking tours around Dublin city. Led by our experienced guides, you will see for yourself the places, sights, and sounds from Joyce’s work. 7 Eccles Street, Belvedere College, St. George’s Church, Hardwicke Street, the Gresham Hotel, Davy Byrne’s, and the National Library are just some of the places you will see for yourself.
Be sure to book them soon as places fill up fast!
Introducing Joyce’s Dublin
TICKETS: €15 adults/€12 students and seniors
STARTING POINT: James Joyce Centre, 35 Great George’s St. N., Dublin 1
TIME/DATE: 11am, 12th-18th June
DURATION: Approximately 2 hours
Though Joyce lived most of his life outside of Ireland, Dublin would provide the backdrop for virtually all of his work. On a stroll around the north inner city, our guide will explain the real-life inspiration behind some of Joyce’s most celebrated writing and will show just how central the streetscape of the ‘Hibernian metropolis’ is to the author’s life and art.
The tour visits stops such as Joyce’s alma mater, Belvedere College; North Hardwicke Street, the setting of the short story ‘The Boarding House’; The Gresham Hotel, the setting of the final and most memorable scene of the short story ‘The Dead’; and the James Joyce Statue on North Earl Street, affectionately known as the ‘Prick with the Stick’.
The tour also includes a visit to the site of one of the most famous addresses in English literature, No. 7 Eccles Street, and retraces the steps of Leopold Bloom’s celebrated journey to buy a pork kidney in the fourth episode of Ulysses.
This is an excellent and fun introduction to Joyce in a bustling part of the city!
Footsteps of Leopold Bloom
TICKETS: €15 adults/€12 students and seniors
STARTING POINT: James Joyce Centre, 35 Great George’s St. N., Dublin 1
TIME/DATE: 2pm, 12th-18th June
DURATION: Approximately 2 hours
The ‘Lestrygonians’ episode of Ulysses sees Leopold Bloom make his way through the city centre on his way from Middle Abbey Street to the National Library. As he begins to feel the rumblings of hunger, his thoughts become centred on the social, political cultural and religious significance of food; as he goes on to think, food underlies all relations to the extent that ‘peace and war depend on some fellow’s digestion’.
Bloom’s musings on the importance of food are mixed with a commentary on the architecture that surrounds him, emphasising Dublin’s position as a colonial city. Join our guide as we follow in Bloom’s footsteps and discuss these thoughts, focusing on Joyce’s effort to bring the unsavoury workings of the body into a work of art and use food as the basis of a political and social commentary.
This tour is ideal for fans of Ulysses and for those who want a truly immersive Joycean experience!
Pat Liddy’s Bloomsday Walk
TICKETS: €25 adults/€20 students and seniors/€15 youths
STARTING POINT: The Gate Theatre, Cavendish Row, Parnell Sq. E., Dublin 1
TIME/DATE: 10.30am & 2.30pm, 16th June
DURATION: Approximately 2 hours
This tour is ideal for those interested in a first introduction to James Joyce and will celebrate the life of the iconic Irish writer by walking through the streets of Dublin, the city he immortalized in his ground-breaking novel, Ulysses.
The route will partly follow in the footsteps of the book’s main character, Leopold Bloom, in his famous wanderings in the year 1904 and there will be liberal quotations from Ulysses as we stroll along. On this colourful occasion many people will be gaily dressed in the flamboyant costumes of the Edwardian period, so please feel free to do the same!
You will also receive a free visitor map and guide and discounts in Dublin’s oldest café, Bewley’s, in the Church Bar/Café and at the EPIC Emigration Museum.
Father John Conmee S.J. Guided Walk
TICKETS: €15
STARTING POINT: St Francis Xavier’s Church, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin 1
TIME/DATE: 10.25am & 2:55pm, 16th June
DURATION: Approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes
Joycean guides Dr. Michael Quinn and Billy Fitzpatrick will lead you on this fascinating walking tour through Dublin’s North City following the route of Father John Conmee in the ‘Wandering Rocks’ episode of Ulysses.
The tour route includes Mountjoy Square, Great Charles Street, North Circular Road, North Richmond Street, Portland Row, Aldborough House, Five Lamps, North Strand Road, Newcomen Bridge, and Charleville Mall.
Dr. Michael Quinn is the author of A History of Araby House and North Richmond Street, Dublin, 1820-1998 (2020). Billy Fitzpatrick is an author and former President of the Teachers Union of Ireland.
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