Joyce's Dublin

No author is more intimately associated with a particular place than is James Joyce with what he termed "dear dirty Dublin."  During our two weeks in Dublin, we read and study Joyce's great collection of short stories, Dubliners, which offers a veritable anatomy of the Dublin of his day; and also his semi-autobiographical novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.  There is no way to convey the experience of studying Joyce in Dublin, where the sites, sounds, and even the smells he evokes can still be found.  

Outside the Martello Tower, Sandymount. Here Joyce lived briefly in 1904, and in this setting his magisterial novel Ulysses begins:  "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan . . ."

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