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The Ulysses Guide: Tours Through Joyce's Dublin - Softcover

Nicholson, Robert

 
9781835940167: The Ulysses Guide: Tours Through Joyce's Dublin

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This updated guide traces Ulysses through Dublin’s streets, illuminating Joyce’s novel with fresh insights and locations.More than just a walking guide, The Ulysses Guide: Tours Through Joyce's Dublin provides a guide to James Joyce’s novel Ulysses by following its eighteen episodes on their original locations, and recreating the Dublin of 1904 against the background of today’s streetscape. First published in 1988 and updated here for the streetscape in 2025, it is a much-loved companion to Joyce's masterpiece and a classic of Irish literary criticism.The Ulysses Guide explains the action of the book in terms of its settings and illuminates some of the more challenging sections of Joyce's work. This latest edition has been updated to incorporate new additions to the landscape, such as the James Joyce Bridge and the Museum of Literature, Ireland, and changes to Joycean landmarks like the Ormond Hotel, Sweny's Pharmacy and Barney Kiernan's pub.New research has thrown fresh light on some puzzling moments in Ulysses and challenged traditional views on Mr Deasy's school, Bella Cohen's reputation and Stephen's morning whereabouts.

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Robert Nicholson was born and lives in Dublin. He studied English language and literature at Trinity College, and from 1978 until his recent retirement was the curator of the James Joyce Museum at the Joyce Tower in Sandycove. He was also curator at the Dublin Writers Museum in Parnell Square.

The Ulysses Guide: Tours Through Joyce's Dublin was first published in 1988, establishing him as an authority on the locations of Joyce’s novel, and in 2007 he wrote and presented a DVD for Arts Magic, James Joyce’s Dublin: The Ulysses Tour.

He is a founder member of the James Joyce Cultural Centre as well as a former chairman of the James Joyce Institute of Ireland. He is a regular contributor to The James Joyce Broadsheet.

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