Before Nelson's pillar trams slowed, shunted, changed trolley, started for Blackrock, Kingstown and Dalkey, Clonskea, Rathgar and Terenure, Palmerston Park and upper Rathmines, Sandymount Green, Rathmines, Ringsend and Sandymount Tower, Harold's Cross. The hoarse Dublin United Tramway Company's timekeeper bawled them off ...
Navan Ulysses Reading Group continues its meanderings this week ‘in the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis’. The seventh chapter of Ulysses sees our hero, Leopold Bloom, engaged in a series of near misses and frustrating disappointments as he seeks to place a newspaper ad on behalf of his client Alexander Keyes. In the newspaper offices, then as now, all is bombast and oratory as the assembled parties discuss everything from the Ancient Classics to Home Rule, racing tips and British imperialism.
Lestrygonians, the eighth chapter of Ulysses, sees a hungry Bloom meander across the city from the newspaper offices on Prince’s Street / Abbey Street to Duke Street. After his walk which is replete with images, tastes and smells of food, Bloom arrives in Davy Byrne’s pub where he has his much celebrated lunch of gorgonzola cheese sandwiches and burgundy wine before having another ‘near miss’ as he almost runs into Molly’s lover, the jaunty Blazes Boylan.
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