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Nora Barnacle House, 8 Bowling Green Willie Mulvagh's home, Mary Street Mrs. Catherine Healy's home, St. Augustine Street Rahoon Cemetery Bridge Mills and Wm. O'Brien Bridge, River Corrib River Corrib Spanish Arch and the Long Walk McDonough's Seafood House, 22 Quay Street |
Galway, the largest county in the province of Connacht, lies to the west of Ireland by the coast. The area has been inhabited since prehistoric times in places like Connemara. Galway City is known as the capital of the west. It is a magical city as even its name comes from Gallaimh, a mythological princess who drowned in the river nearby. In 1477 Christopher Columbus stopped over in Galway city with a fleet of ships and was given a blessing in St. Nicholas's Church. The Spanish Armada also stopped in Galway to take shelter, and Galway soon established good trading links with Spain. By the middle of the seventeenth century Galway was a great city until an English ruler named Cromwell invaded. Galway was soon became poor and over-crowded as Cromwell had seized all the wealth of the city. The final blow was the great Famine 1846-1849. It is only today that Galway has fully recovered.
Nora Barnacle, Joyce's wife, was born there to parents in Sullivan's Lane on March 21, 1884. Her father was a baker, an also a heavy drinker, kept his large family poor, according to Richard Ellmann's biography James Joyce (rev. 1982, p.157).
Coole Park, the home of Lady Gregory, and also the setting of W. B. Yeats' famous poem "Wild Swans at Coole" is about twenty-four miles outside Galway on the Gort/Limerick road. Moreover, Yeats' tower Thoor Ballylee is very close to the park.
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Nora Barnacle House | 8 Bowling Green, or The Nora Barnacle House Museum; built in 1855, consists of one room on the ground floor and another room on the first floor plus the very narrow backyard. Nora's mother Annie Healy (Mrs. Barnacle) lived here until her death in 1939; it was bought and renovated by the local sisters, Sheila and Mary Gallagher. | |
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(Monday 21 June) 8 Bowling Green, or The Nora Barnacle House Museum; built in 1855, consists of one room on the ground floor and another room on the first floor plus the very narrow backyard. Nora's mother Annie Healy (Mrs. Barnacle) lived here until her death in 1939; it was bought and renovated by the local sisters, Sheila and Mary Gallagher. |
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(Monday 21 June) 8 Bowling Green, or The Nora Barnacle House Museum |
?Willie Mulvagh's home | Willie Mulvagh's home, Mary Street. He, a Protestant boy, was another admirer of Nora soon after Michael Bodkin's death: Nora continued to go with him in spite of her uncle, Thomas Healy's disapproval until her luck ran out. Joyce used Mulvagh as "lieutenant Mulvey, British navy" under the Moorish walls in Gibraltar as a lover of the fifteen-year-old Molly Bloom in U13.0889, etc. Cf. Vivien Igoe, James Joyce's Dublin Houses, pp. 90-91. | |
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(Monday 21 June) ?Willie Mulvagh's home, Mary Street. He, a Protestant boy, was another admirer of Nora soon after Michael Bodkin's death: Nora continued to go with him in spite of her uncle, Thomas Healy's disapproval until her luck ran out. Joyce used Mulvagh as "lieutenant Mulvey, British navy" under the Moorish walls in Gibraltar as a lover of the fifteen-year-old Molly Bloom in U13.0889, etc. Cf. Vivien Igoe, James Joyce's Dublin Houses, pp. 90-91. |
?Mrs. Catherine Healy's | ?Mrs. Catherine Healy (Nora Barnacle's maternal grand mother) and her son Thomas's home, St. Augustine Street, where Nora was fostered when she was a small child. | |
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(Monday 21 June) ?Mrs. Catherine Healy (Nora Barnacle's maternal grand mother) and her son Thomas's home, St. Augustine Street, where Nora was fostered when she was a small child. |
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(Monday 21 June) ?Mrs. Catherine Healy (Nora Barnacle's maternal grand mother) and her son Thomas's home, St. Augustine Street, where Nora was fostered when she was a small child. |
Rahoon Cemetery | ||
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(Monday 21 June) The front gate of Rahoon Cemetery |
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(Monday 21 June) [D "The Dead"] Michael Bodkin's (one of Nora Barnacle's admirers: a model of "Michael Furey") grave, Rahoon Cemetery |
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(Monday 21 June) [D "The Dead"] Michael Bodkin's (one of Nora Barnacle's admirers: a model of "Michael Furey") grave, Rahoon Cemetery |
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(Monday 21 June) [D "The Dead"] Michael Bodkin's (one of Nora Barnacle's admirers: a model of "Michael Furey") grave, Rahoon Cemetery |
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(Monday 21 June) [D "The Dead"] Michael Bodkin's (one of Nora Barnacle's admirers: a model of "Michael Furey") grave, Rahoon Cemetery |
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(Monday 21 June) [D "The Dead"] Michael Bodkin's (one of Nora Barnacle's admirers: a model of "Michael Furey") grave, Rahoon Cemetery. Nora's father, Thomas Barnacle's grave was very close: the Japan-Ireland Association helped to built the gravestone for Thomas Barnacle's grave in 2004. |
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(Monday 21 June) [D "The Dead"] Michael Bodkin's (one of Nora Barnacle's admirers: a model of "Michael Furey") grave, Rahoon Cemetery. Nora's father, Thomas Barnacle's grave was very close: the Japan-Ireland Association helped to built the gravestone for Thomas Barnacle's grave in 2004. |
Bridge Mills and Wm. O'Brien Bridge, | Bridge Mills and Wm. O'Brien Bridge, River Corrib | |
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(Monday 21 June) Bridge Mills and Wm. O'Brien Bridge, River Corrib |
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(Monday 21 June) Bridge Mills and Wm. O'Brien Bridge, River Corrib |
River Corrib | River Corrib, viewed from the Long Walk | |
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(Monday 21 June) River Corrib, viewed from the Long Walk |
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(Monday 21 June) River Corrib, viewed from the Long Walk |
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(Monday 21 June) River Corrib, viewed from the Long Walk |
Spanish Arch and the Long Walk | Spanish Arch and the Long Walk | |
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(Monday 21 June) Spanish Arch and the Long Walk |
McDonough's | My lunch@McDonough's Seafood House, 22 Quay Street. | |
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(Monday 21 June) My lunch@McDonough's Seafood House, 22 Quay Street. |