For a refreshment, you could stop off at the country s most visited tourist attraction, the guinness storehouse, which produces 880 million pints of the black stuff every single year. i popped over a few months ago to check out their exhibit and sample their new alcohol free stout. you genuinely wouldn t know. well, i genuinely wouldn t know. and if you re a budding joyce fan, you can t miss the bloomsday celebrations onjune i6. this annual festival taking place on the date depicted in ulysses, and there are events inspired by the novel all over dublin, including street performances and fancy dress. stay tuned, because later in the programme, i ll pop into one of the festival s most famous landmarks. still to come on the travel show, holidays for the hard up simon s here with tips
Set over a single day, ulysses follows two characters, leopold bloom and stephen dedalus, on theirjourneys across dublin. today, there are guided tours that follow their footsteps and help readers make sense of it all. this is davy byrne s pub, it s like one of the set pieces in ulysses. bloom goes in there, ends up getting a gorgonzola cheese sandwich. you know, which even now is fairly sort of hip to the groove, you know. right, and a glass of burgundy, like. you know, you re not dealing with muck here. jack s an actor who s been running these tours for about five years. men, men, men, perched on high stools by the bar, hats shoved back at the tables, calling for more bread, no charge, swirling half masticated gristle, no teeth to chew, chomp, chomp from the grill,
Great literature? i think it comes down to an oral tradition and a nation of storytellers. dublin itself, you ll see not just oscar wilde s statue or beckett s bridge, but you ll look down and see that there s an inscription of ulysses in the pavement, in the sidewalk it s in the bones of the city. the old library has some 350,000 books, and more than half of them line the shelves of the long room. the collection is a vital piece of dublin s literary heritage, but it s under threat. so, with so many books i mean, hundreds of thousands storage must be a huge problem? absolutely. these volumes in here, they re our most valuable, our most valued. they re also our most vulnerable. this is this beautiful library, as you see, but, in effect, we re in an inner city ring road, and all that particulate pollution from all the traffic is coming through the windows and coming and landing on the books.
Rajan datar is in dublin, 3 unesco city of literature, celebrating 100 years since the publication of jamesjoyce s epic novel ulysses. this week on the travel show, centennial celebrations in a city of stories. the beauty ofjoyce s language, the way he relates to the common man and woman, is incredible. how to make your holiday budget travel further. the simplest way to cut costs? don t travel when everybody else is. and closing in on colombo. karolis heads for the finish line. that s it, baby!
and they all looked was it sheet lightning? it was darker now, and there were stones and bits of wood on the strand. a fair, unsullied soul had called to him. i now is then. no reasonable.. offer refused. these readings moved online during the pandemic but even though the shop s open again, they continue to have people tune in from all over the world. the chemist turned back, page after page, living all the day amongst herbs, ointments, disinfectants, all his alabaster lily pots. no idea how i read that, but thanks for listening! chuckles that s what we do here we read it out loud. you know, we have people here from different nationalities, different parts of ireland and you hear it all sorts of music, if you like, butjoyce would have loved that. does it make it easy to understand and get into it? yeah. because it s a book you grow up hearing about and ulysses is supposedly so difficult, it s a really nice feeling