A James Joyce landmark in Dublin is being converted into a hostel. Not everyone is happy
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A James Joyce landmark in Dublin is being converted into a hostel. Not everyone is happyBy
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Located on the banks of the Liffey river, the 18th-century town house was the setting for 'The Dead'.
New York Times
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DUBLIN: James Joyce famously left his native Dublin at the age of 22 and then spent the rest of his life writing about the city, sending characters to wander its slums, back streets and faded 18th-century grandeur.
A century before search engines and online street views, the exiled Joyce would bombard Dublin-based friends with postcards and letters, checking every detail of the city’s micro-geography, every shop front and street number. Not long before his death in Zurich in 1941, he was asked whether he would ever go back to Dublin. His reply: “Have I ever left it?”