JOYCEAN PICS 2008
Dublin, Jew and Joyce: "Jublin"
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  [U 08] Davy Byrne's "Moral Pub," 21 Duke Street
  River Liffey
  Sean O'Casey Bridge over River Liffey
  The Irish Jewish Museum, 3-4 Walworth Road
  [U] Clanbrassil Street Upper ("Little Jerusalem")
  [U] St. Kevin's Parade ("Little Jerusalem")
  Statue of James Joyce, Earl Street North
  [U 04 & 17-18] Eccles Street
  Bust of James Joyce, Stephen's Green South
  [U 15] James Joyce Street (former Mabbot Street)
CONTENTS 2008
   1  Tours IJJF Symposium 2008: "Re-Nascent Joyce"
   2  Tours and Joyce
   3  Tours: miscellanea
   4  La Maison du Vouvray
   5  Boat Trip down the Loire
   6  Chateau Royal or the Da Vinci Court, Amboise
   7  Paris and Joyce
   8  Paris: miscellanea
   9  Mont-Saint-Michel
  10  Dublin, Jew and Joyce: "Jublin"
  11  Dublin: miscellanea
  12  Athlone
  13  Clonmacnoise (Cluain Mhic Nois)
  14  Belfast: "You Are Now Entering Loyalist Sandy Row"
  15  Carrickfergus Castle
  16  The Hurry Head, East Antrim (Co. Antrim)
  17  Carrick-a-Rede
  18  The Old Bushmills Distillery Co. Ltd.
  19  Dunluce Castle
  20  The Giant's Causeway
  21  Seoul JJSK Conference 2008
  22  Seoul: miscellanea 2008

Dublin, Jew and Joyce: "Jublin"

  Dublin is the capital city of Ireland where James Joyce was born and grew up; he lived there from 1882 to 1904.  The Irish dubh linn means "black pool" (which reminds you of "Guinness beer"); the Gaelic name of the city is Baile Atha Cliata, literally means "Town of the Ford of Hurdles." The early history is mainly legendary.  It is recorded that the inhabitants of Leinster were defeated by the people of Dublin. Christianity was introduced by St. Patrick about 450. Dublin was refounded as a trading post by Viking invaders in 841.  The Scandinavian element in Dublin's history provided Joyce with material he used in Finnegans Wake, a work whose title itself resonates with Nordic overtones.
  The city of Dublin plays a prominent role in the writings of Joyce and provides the setting and central geographical motif for most of his work. In a letter to his London publisher, Grant Richards, dated 15 October 1905, Joyce explained the significance Dublin had for him and its importance in his stories: "I do not think that any writer has yet presented Dublin to the world. It has been a capital of Europe for thousands of years, it is supposed to be the second city of the British Empire and it is nearly three times as big as Venice.*  Moreover,... the expression 'Dubliner' seems to me to have some meaning and I doubt whether the same can be said for such words as 'Londoner' and 'Parisian' both of which have been used by writers as titles" (Letters, II, 122).
  Joyce, who wrote most vividly of Dublin after he had left it, used virtually all of it in his work. His depiction of Dublin's citizens, street, neighborhoods, shops, public houses, churches, parks, culture, politics and history is unsurpassed in Irish literature. Throughout his life, Joyce's affection for Dublin never dwindled, and he often fondly referred to it as "dear dirty Dublin."

  *According to the census in Britannica 11th ed.(1911), the population of Dublin was 290,638 (1901), Venice was 169, 563 (1881). Dublin was not the second city of the British Empire in Joyce's time: the population of Greater London was 6,581,402 (1901), Liverpool 684,958(1901) [753,203(1908 estimated) ], Manchester 606,824 (1901), Birmingham 522,204 (1901) and Edinburgh 316,479 (1901). So I presume that Dublin was actually the sixth city of the Empire.
  Cf. also James Joyce A to Z.
  
  
  *If you like to take a Ulysses tour in Dublin, I recommend you to consult Robert Nicholson's The "Ulysses" Guide: Tours Through Joyce's Dublin (Dublin: New Island, 1988/2002).

  As Marilyn Reizbaum says in James Joyce's Judaic Other, Deasy's reference to "she [Ireland] never let them [the Jews] in" (U 2.442) should perhaps be read as a metaphor for Jewish exclusion from Irish society (itself a persecutory act) (38).  This was historically true: in 1871 the Jewish population in all of Ireland was 258, and in 1881, 453, mostly of English and German extraction.  But by the year 1901, the estimate was 3,771, most of them (2,200) residing in Dublin, and in 1904, the estimate was probably nearly 4,800.   The sudden influx at the turn of the century resulted from a wave of immigration, primarily from Russia, where Jewish persecution had become acute.  Until then Ireland had not let Jews in, and, with their coming in greater numbers, people began to take such attitudes toward Jews as were prevalent on the Continent, as Reizbaum notes(38).

  Gerald Davis, an Irish Jew, tells in Educational Jewish Aspects of James Joyce's "Ulysses": "I've always felt that there is something special about being Irish.  There is also something special about being Jewish.  To be both, at the same time, is rare" (Davis 2).
  Davis continues:

  ... But then, in strict terms, Bloom was not a Jew; his mother wasn't Jewish.  Neither, according to some of his fellow citizens, was he a proper Irishman.  For Irish Jews this marvelous ambivalence still exists.  When I am in Ireland I am a Jew; when outside, I am an Irishman.  I love that continuing conundrum of identity.  That Joyce should have set such a poser for society is part of his genius.  Indeed real genius should pose more questions than provide answers.  It is only through questioning that we might discover anything of ourselves. (Davis 2)


  To see more pics of Jewish Dublin:
  
  1. Go to the "Dublin, Jews and Joyce" page of the Joycean Pics 2003.
  2. Go to the "Dublin, Jew and Joyce: "Jublin" " page of the Joycean Pics 2006.
  3. Go to the "Dublin, Jew and Joyce: "Jublin" " page of the Joycean Pics 2007.

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Davy Byrne's
      [U 08] Davy Byrne's "Moral Pub," 21 Duke Street, Dublin 2
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 (Saturday 21 June) [U 08] Davy Byrne's, 21 Duke Street, Dublin 2
  
      
River Liffey
      River Liffey
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 (Monday 23 June) River Liffey, viewed from O'Connel Bridge
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 (Saturday 21 June) River Liffey and Custom House, viewed from O'Connel Bridge
  
      
Sean O'Casey Bridge
      The pedestrian drawbridge called Sean O'Casey Bridge was opened in July 2005 linking Custom House Quay with City Quay over River Liffey and joining Sir John Rogerson's Quay in the Grand Canal Docks area to North Wall Quay and the IFSC.
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 (Sunday 22 June) Inscription of Sean O'Casey Bridge (opened in July 2005) linking Custom House Quay with City Quay over River Liffey
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 (Sunday 22 June) Sean O'Casey Bridge (opened in July 2005) linking Custom House Quay with City Quay over River Liffey
  
      
Irish Jewish Museum
      The Irish Jewish Museum, 3-4 Walworth Road, Dublin 8.  The Irish Jewish Museum was built in the site of Walworth Road Synagogue which ceased to function in the mid-1970s and reopened as the museum by the Irish born former President of Israel Dr. Chaim Herzog on 20th June 1985.  Since then, it has been to convey how Irish Jewry have lived in Ireland to visitors.
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 (Sunday 22 June) The Irish Jewish Museum, 3-4 Walworth Road, Dublin
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 (Sunday 22 June) The former Walworth Road Synagogue.  Courtesy of the Irish Jewish Museum
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 (Sunday 22 June) The former Walworth Road Synagogue.  Courtesy of the Irish Jewish Museum
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 (Sunday 22 June) The scroll of the Torah, the former Walworth Road Synagogue.  Courtesy of the Irish Jewish Museum
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 (Sunday 22 June) A Jewish clock at the former Walworth Road Synagogue.  Courtesy of the Irish Jewish Museum
  
      
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 (Sunday 22 June) [U] Plaque of the fictional birthplace of Leopold Bloom in May 1866, 52 Clanbrassil Street Upper: "Here, in Joyce's imagination, was born Leopold Bloom, citizen, husband, father, worker, the reincarnation of Ulysses."
Clanbrassil Street Upper
      [U] Clanbrassil Street Upper, the former "Little Jerusalem," around Clanbrassil Street and South Circular Road, Dublin 8
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 (Sunday 22 June) The fictional birthplace of Leopold Bloom in May 1866, 52 Clanbrassil Street Upper
  
      
St. Kevin's Parade
      [U] St. Kevin's Parade, the former "Little Jerusalem," around Clanbrassil Street and South Circular Road, Dublin 8
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 (Sunday 22 June) [U] Plaque of St. Kevin's Parade
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 (Sunday 22 June) [U] 16-17 St. Kevin's Parade
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 (Sunday 22 June) [U] 16 St. Kevin's Parade
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 (Sunday 22 June) [U] 16 St. Kevin's Parade
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 (Sunday 22 June) [U] 17 St. Kevin's Parade where J. Citron lives
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 (Sunday 22 June) [U] 16-17 St. Kevin's Parade
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 (Sunday 22 June) [U] 20 St. Kevin's Parade where Minnie Watchman, the great-aunt of Louis Hyman, lived
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 (Sunday 22 June) [U] 20 St. Kevin's Parade where Minnie Watchman, the great-aunt of Louis Hyman, lived
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 (Sunday 22 June) [U] 20 St. Kevin's Parade where Minnie Watchman, the great-aunt of Louis Hyman, lived
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 (Sunday 22 June) 3 St. Kevin's Parade
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 (Sunday 22 June) 3 St. Kevin's Parade
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 (Sunday 22 June) 3 St. Kevin's Parade
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 (Sunday 22 June) 3 St. Kevin's Parade
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 (Sunday 22 June) 3 St. Kevin's Parade
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 (Sunday 22 June) 2 St. Kevin's Parade (demolished?)
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 (Sunday 22 June) 2 St. Kevin's Parade
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 (Sunday 22 June) 1-2 St. Kevin's Parade
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 (Sunday 22 June) 1-2 St. Kevin's Parade
  
      
Statue of James Joyce
      Statue of James Joyce, Earl Street North
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 (Sunday 22 June) Statue of James Joyce, Earl Street North
  
      
Eccles Street
      [U 04 & 17-18] The street was named after the family that included Ambrose Eccles (d. 1809), a distinguished Irish editor of and commentator on Shakespeare's plays.  The Annual Register for 1810 memorialized him as "a profound scholar, a perfect gentleman, an ornament to society" (Don Gifford, "Ulysses" Annotated, p.70).
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 (Sunday 22 June) [U 04 & 17-18] 7 Eccles Street (now Mater Misericordiae University Hospital): the plaque of James Joyce's Ulysses
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 (Sunday 22 June) [U 04 & 17-18] Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
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 (Sunday 22 June) [U 04 & 17-18] A northward view of Eccles Street
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 (Sunday 22 June) [U 04 & 17-18] St George's Church, Hardwicke Place, viewed from Eccles Street
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 (Sunday 22 June) [U 04 & 17-18] St George's Church, Hardwicke Place, viewed from Eccles Street
  
      
Stephen's Green
      Bust of James Joyce, Stephen's Green South
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 (Sunday 22 June) Bust of James Joyce, St. Stephen's Green South
  
      
James Joyce Street
       [U 15] James Joyce Street: the entrance of Joycean Nighttown (Mabbot Street, the entrance to the Red-light District)
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 (Tuesday 24 June) [U 15] Plaque of James Joyce Street
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 (Tuesday 24 June) [U 15] James Joyce Street: the entrance of Joycean Nighttown (Mabbot Street, the entrance to the Red-light District)




        


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