Yesterday was Bloomsday, one of the more exciting holidays in Ireland in which millions (billions?) of people flood into the Dublin streets and pubs to relive the events of James Joyce’s Tome, Ulysses. If you left now you might be a little too late to join the revelers, but you could probably use this map to find a few of them in the pubs today. I can think of worse things to do on a Tuesday afternoon.
And to get you in the mood, a brief quote. “He skipped off the gunrest and looked gravely at his watcher, gathering about his legs the loose folds of his gown. The plump shadowed face and sullen oval jowl recalled a prelate, patron of arts in the middle ages. A pleasant smile broke quietly over his lips.
- The mockery of it! he said gaily. Your absurd name, an ancient Greek!”
Map from Joyceimages.com
Martin Ocean Transport – Model 130 (a useful poster)
Periphery apparel and a grant for attendance at this year’s AAGs
Is it a map or is it art. Does it matter
Overcoming Olympic Geography
What Would Jane Jacobs Do? The Club Mix
Special Sauce Spatiality
When was this map published? There are barracks all over the city. It must be pre-civil war, isn’t it?
Aaron, I’m not totally sure when the map was printed, but it depicts Dublin in 1904, when Leopold Bloom made his epic stroll through the green streets of Dublin and navigated his way through the mobs of leprechauns. my guess would be that the map would have been published close to that time. Anyone else have a better idea?