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BMtSrz0CQAAXAVxThe James Joyce Bike Messenger whatsit ahead of Bloomsday this Sunday, June 16..

At The Wolfe Tone statue at Stephen’s Green, Dublin, moments ago.

They’re re-enacting the Cycle-ops chapter,

Cycle.

Suit yourselves.

Thanks Garret Tubridy

Update:

bloomOn Dawson Street.

Gwan the Molly.

Thanks Carlosfandango

Update:

bloom2Outside The Stag’s Head, Dame Court.  Bill Cullen (in black) apparently.

Thanks Niamh

bloom4Parliament Street, Dublin, now fortified.

Thanks Katherine O’Meara

90301254Charlene McKenna, Jim Wolfe, Graham Wilkinson and Paul Kennedy in the Iveagh Gardens today launching the 20th Annual Bloomsday Messenger Bike Rally with Brennans Bread in aid of the Irish Youth Foundation.

The bike rally is inspired by the Cycle-ops episode of Ulysses.

Cycle.

Suit yourselves.

Irish Youth Foundation to host its 20th Annual Bloomsday Messenger Bike Rally

 (Leon Farrell/Photocall ireland)

Hang on.

What’s that disappointed bridge pier doing there?

*scratches head*

Discovered on the excellent South Dublin County Libraries image archive.

‘Sibling’ of Daedalus’  ponders

I never knew about the pier and I’m not too sure it’s mentioned in the buke. So this is what S/mt Strand would have looked like to Leopold Bloom? A mini-Brighton The photos are from c.1900 because the little boy in the first one is wearing an Oxford Suit which was around from about 1895-1915.

I thought whoever put it up [the image] had made a mistake and it was Belfast, because it says Belfast on the sign [second pic], but I think it’s referring to day trips on a boat, so indeed there was a pier.

What always amazes me is how good the infrastructure was for middle-class Dubliners c.1900. Lovely railings, parks etc. Of course if you lived in the slums a very different story.

South Dublin County Libraries

Sibling of Daedalus