{"id":13717,"date":"2024-08-27T12:46:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T11:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studyinireland.ie\/?p=13717"},"modified":"2024-08-27T12:49:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T11:49:05","slug":"isi-and-james-joyces-dublin-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studyinireland.ie\/en\/isi-and-james-joyces-dublin-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"ISI and James Joyce\u2019s Dublin II"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our teacher Edia (left) with her students, walking in the footsteps of Leopold Bloom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\nIn our last post in this series<\/a>, we suggested that if you\u2019re a James Joyce fan and are planning on travelling to Dublin to work and study, do some teacher training, or simply soak up the vibrant atmosphere of this UNESCO City of Literature, you might want to make ISI Dublin your first port of call. Why? Well, because of all the myriad locations of this city connected to Joyce\u2019s works, ISI Dublin\u2019s Meeting House Lane campus is housed in the last remaining building of Saint Mary\u2019s Abbey (1139 CE), whose Chapter House features in Ulysses (1922 CE) as \u201cthe most historic spot in all Dublin.\u201d From here, we mentioned, it is just a short walk to Middle Abbey Street and the former offices of the Evening Telegraph, fictional employers of Ulysses\u2019 principal protagonist, Leopold Bloom. We then suggested that in following the first in a series of bronze pavement plaques, you could trace Bloom\u2019s midday route through Dublin \u2014 creating a mini-Bloomsday all of your own! But what if you wanted to take a diversion, personalising the route? Well, that\u2019s what we\u2019re here to find out!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While in Dublin, . . . don\u2019t look up! Look down. No, no, no, . . . in all seriousness, please do look up, but don\u2019t miss out on the series of 14 bronze plaques that were installed in Dublin\u2019s pavements in an homage to James Joyce\u2019s Ulysses in 1988. (Incidentally, and Joyce would enjoy the numerology, in 1999, Ulysses was ranked 1st on the Modern Library\u2019s list of the 100 best English-language books of the 20th century.) These plaques, each with a quotation corresponding to the spot in which it is placed as it features in the Aeolus episode of Ulysses, allow you to walk in the footsteps of Leopold Bloom, the novel\u2019s principal protagonist. More specifically, these plaques enable you to follow Bloom’s midday route as he traverses the city of Dublin on June 16 1904. They commence at Middle Abbey Street and conclude at the National Library, near Trinity College. But, what, as mentioned, if you want to personalise the route \u2014 perhaps not limiting it to the Aeolus episode, but taking in Lotus Eaters too!<\/p>\n

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Our teacher Edia (left) with her students, walking in the footsteps of Leopold Bloom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well, departing from the prescribed route on Westmoreland Street\u2014 underneath the roguish-fingered figure of Thomas Moore, pictured above \u2014 one option is that you can head for Sweny\u2019s pharmacy on Lincoln Place. Interestingly, though no longer a pharmacy, as such (now a Joycean Museum), Sweny\u2019s is the only building in Dublin that retains the Edwardian interior that Joyce\u2019s fictionalised character would have encountered in 1904. In the Lotus Eaters episode of Ulysses<\/em>, Leopold Bloom leaves his friend Paddy Dignam\u2019s funeral mass at All Hallows Church (St Andrew\u2019s in the novel) and makes his way southward to the top of Westmoreland Row, Lincoln Place. His purpose \u2014 to visit Sweny\u2019s pharmacy and order a skin lotion for his wife, Molly. Famously, while there, he purchases a bar of lemon soap, which he carries around with him all day, and which we hear about every now and then. In fact, this bar of lemon soap becomes something of a leitmotif in Ulysses<\/em>, culminating in the Circe episode\u2019s rendition of the following ditty, when the anthropomorphized soap, having come to life, sings:<\/p>\n

We\u2019re a capital couple are Bloom and I.\/ He brightens the earth. I polish the sky.<\/p>\n

This little bar of lemon soap has become the focus of numerous examinations of aspects of Joyce\u2019s writing, which include, but are not limited to advertising, domesticity, consumer culture, and imperialism.<\/p>\n

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Our teacher Edia\u2019s lemon soap amidst other Joyce (pictured right) ephemera purchased at Sweny\u2019s pharmacy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since Ulysses<\/em>\u2019 publication in 1922, Sweny\u2019s pharmacy has become a volunteer-run bookshop, I suppose, for want of a better word. In truth, it stocks all sorts of Joycean ephemera and hosts numerous Joycean events throughout the year, as well as \u2014 yes, you heard it here first \u2014 selling bars of that luscious lemon soap (though for more than Bloom\u2019s fourpence (U<\/em>\u00a05.511))! For roughly 5e at the time of writing, Joyce fans from all over the world can visit Sweny\u2019s and buy bars of this savant-laden \u201csweet lemony wax\u201d for themselves. . . .<\/p>\n

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So, what do you think of this prospective detour? We have other suggestions, other options for all you Joycean enthusiasts out there to explore. For instance, from beneath Thomas Moore\u2019s \u201croguish finger,\u201d you could make your way back towards ISI Dublin\u2019s Meeting House Lane campus, and from here to the house of \u201cThe Dead\u201d on Ushers Island? Lots of choices, as previously mentioned. Let\u2019s check these out together in the next of this series of blog posts exploring ISI and James Joyce\u2019s Dublin!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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