Introducing Joyce’s Dublin Walking Tour
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, which features extensively in ‘A Portrait of the Artist’; 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 residences in English literature, No. 7 Eccles Street, and retraces the steps of Leopold Bloom’s celebrated journey to buy a pork kidney in the ‘Calypso’ episode of Ulysses. This tour ends on O’Connell Street.
This is an excellent and fun introduction to Joyce in a bustling part of the city.
This tour is offered every Thursday and Saturday at 11 AM.
Walk around Dublin’s Northside in the Introduction to Joyce’s Dublin Walking Tour
Footsteps of Leopold Bloom Walking Tour
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 ends on Kildare Street.
This tour is ideal for fans of Ulysses and for those who want a truly immersive Joycean experience.
This tour is offered every Friday at 11 AM.
Explore Dublin’s city centre in the Footsteps of Leopold Bloom Walking Tour.