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Tuesday, June 16

The Useful infographic.

Ciaran writes:

Information designer Aimée Stewart designed this infographic to help make Ulysses more accessible for the annual Bloomsday pub crawls pilgrimage.

Aimeé overlaid an animated narrative onto a map of the city as described in the novel. 18 chapters, colour coded, beginning at Martello Tower [Sandycove, Co Dublin]. Or skip straight to Davy Byrne’s [Duke Street, Dublin] for a glass of burgundy and a gorgonzola sandwich….

Larger swanky version here

Aimeé Stewart

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[Keith Joyce whose grand uncle Charles was James Joyce’s brother, at the James Joyce Centre, Dublin this morning]

Let’s don stupid hats for the day,
When Mulligan slagged the late May,
Then Steve went to school,
And got paid by a fool-
I gave up there, that’s all I can say.

John Moynes

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

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For the day that’s in it.

Peter O’Brien writes:

“Blooms Hotel Temple Bar commissioned artist James Earley to give the hotel exterior a Joycean makeover, using it as his canvas, to showcase his interpretation of the main characters of James Joyce’s Ulysses.Similar to the mural, the video (above), by Event Junkies tells the story of Ulysses in a contemporary manner. The footage of the painting coming together is intercut with shots of several Dubliners reciting a quote from the book at key locations mentioned in the text.”

Meanwhile…

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Christy Burke Lord Mayor of Dublin with Joyce-a-like John Shelvin on North Great George’s Street, Dublin today.

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)