Introducing Joyce’s Dublin Walking Tour
Though James Joyce lived most of his life outside of Ireland, Dublin would provide the backdrop for virtually all of his work, including Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. 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’s stops include:
- Belvedere College, where Stephen Dedalus attends school in A Portrait of the Artist
- Hardwicke Street, the setting of the short story ‘The Boarding House’ in Dubliners
- No. 7 Eccles Street, where Leopold and Molly Bloom live in Ulysses
- The Gresham Hotel, the setting of the final and most memorable scene of the short story ‘The Dead’
- The James Joyce Statue, affectionately known as the ‘Prick with the Stick’
This is a fun and detailed introduction to Joyce in a bustling part of the city.
This tour is offered every Thursday and Saturday at 11am.
Walk around Dublin’s Northside in the Introduction to Joyce’s Dublin Walking Tour
Footsteps of Leopold Bloom Walking Tour
The 8th chapter of Ulysses (‘Lestrygonians’) sees Leopold Bloom make his way through the city centre on his way from Middle Abbey Street to the National Library of Ireland. 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 to learn more about Dublin, ‘the heart of the Hibernian metropolis.’
This tour is offered every Friday at 11 AM.
Explore Dublin’s city centre in the Footsteps of Leopold Bloom Walking Tour.