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Westmoreland Street, D2

Leopold Bloom's midday route

James Joyce Ulysses Tour

Robin Buick
1988

Dublin - Baile Átha Cliath / Leopold Bloom's midday route

Description

Scattered through Dublin city centre, fourteen plaques in the pavement indicate particular points that appear in James Joyce's Ulysses. This book chronicles the appointments and encounters of the itinerant Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. The plaques follow Bloom's midday route and begin at the Evening Telegraph Office on Abbey Street, and conclude at the National Museum near Trinity College. The plaques all have the same design, showing Leopold Bloom walking, the protagonist in Ulysses, but a different quote each time. The one we photographed is in Westmoreland Seet, where Bloom passed Harrison's Restaurant (now a Chinese restaurant).

Sculptor

Robin Buick (Ballymena Co. Antrim, N. Ireland, l940), Irish sculptor (Website).

Sources & Information

Neal Doherty, The Complete Guide to the Statues and Sculptures of Dublin City (Blackrock: Orpen Press, 2015), pp. 152-153.
Books Tell You Why, James Joyce's Dublin.

Locatie (N 53°20'46" - W 6°15'32") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: ie395; Photograph: 23 June 2023
Of each statue we made photos from various angles and also detail photos of the various texts.
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