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Colm Toibin visits locations featured in the stories of James Joyce's Dubliners

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The James Joyce Centre, North Great George's Street, Dublin

The James Joyce Centre in north Dublin

  • "We then came near the river...we pleased ourselves with the spectacle..the brown fishing fleet beyond Ringsend" (An Encounter)
  • "When the Scotch House closed they went round to Mulligan's...O Halloran ordered small hot specials all round." (Counterparts)
  • By the Custom House, on the River Liffey,Dublin, shortly after dawn
  • "Mrs Mooney['s] boarding house in Hardwicke Street. All of the resident young men spoke of her as The Madam" The Boarding House
  • The James Joyce Centre, North Great George's Street, Dublin
  • "It was always a great affair, the Misses Morkan's annual dance...in the dark, gaunt house on Usher's Island." (The Dead)
  • "A fat brown goose lay at one end of the table and at the other end, on a bed of creased paper...lay a great ham" (The Dead)
  • "Well, drive bang up against Trinity College gates," said Mr Browne..."Make like a bird for Trinity College." (The Dead)
  • "They say you never cross O'Connell Bridge without seeing a white horse" (The Dead)
  • "As they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties...and run away together" (The Dead)
  • "This is Parnell's anniversary," said Mr O'Connor, "and don't let us stir up any bad blood." (Ivy Day in the Committee Room)
  • Guide Jonathan Creasy (left) from the James Joyce Centre taking his Dubliners walking tour to the James Joyce statue
  • Dublin Writers Museum, Parnell Square, Dublin

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  • Walking With the Dead

    Writer Colm Tóibín explores the Dublin locations haunted by James Joyce's Dubliners.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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