James Joyce Centre Walking Tour, Dublin, Ireland

For anyone who has struggled to read his opus, Ulysses, it can be an insurmountable mountain to climb. But I came to Ireland to learn about Joyce鈥檚 early life. The natural place to start was this museum.

James Joyce Centre aims to be 鈥渢he focal point for the worldwide celebration of James Joyce and as a destination for literary tourism, access to Georgian Dublin, and culture in Dublin city.鈥�

I didn鈥檛 need to buy a United flight from Washington Dulles Airport to Dublin Airport to see James Joyce鈥檚 world.

Dublin is a world that readers of his novels know well. Whether it is the school steps that Stephen Dedalus bounds up in his Catholic secondary school in聽The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or the turnabout that George Bloom crosses in front of St. George鈥檚 Church in Ulysses, Joyce paints an intimate portrait of the Dubliners who lived here in the 1900s.

But walking these actual Dublin streets could help me appreciate his writing in a new way as a writer.聽 ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).

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Guide Name: James Joyce Centre Walking Tour
Guide Location: Ireland » Dublin
Guide Type: Self-guided Walking Tour (Insider Tips)
Author: Teresa Markle
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Sight(s) Featured in This Guide:

James Joyce Centre
Belvedere College
14 Henrietta Street Museum
N. Great George鈥檚 Street
Dergvale Hotel
St. George鈥檚 Church
Parnell Monument
James Joyce Statue

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