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Showing posts with label Bloomsday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bloomsday. Show all posts
13 February 2026

Bethel Solomons, the prominent
Jewish doctor who won ten caps
in international rugby for Ireland

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A portrait of Dr Bethel Solomons by his sister Estella Solomons (Irish Jewish Museum, ©The Trustees of the Estate of Estella Solomons) Pat...
16 June 2025

A Bloomsday conundrum: did
my grandmother live next door to
a brother of ‘old Mr Verschoyle’?

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No 5 Ashdale Park, Terenure … the Comerford family were neighbours of the Verschoyle family for over 60 years (Photograph: Patrick Comerford...
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14 August 2024

The Museum of Literature
Ireland and Dublin’s
tributes to James Joyce
and so many other writers

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The Museum of Literature Ireland is housed in Newman House on Saint Stephen’s Green, Dublin, and backs onto the Iveagh Gardens (Photograph: ...
16 June 2024

Daily prayer in Ordinary Time 2024:
38, 16 June 2024, Trinity III

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The altar and the holy gifts seen through the central doors of the iconostasis in Stony Stratford, open during the Divine Liturgy (Photograp...
09 June 2024

A short visit to Dublin
and Bray brings back
good memories from
40 and 50 years ago

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Time moves on at McCloskey’s in Donnybrook … memories of poetry readings, drama groups and rugby matches (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 202...
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25 December 2023

Molly Bloom’s
Christmas Card:
where Joycean fiction
meets a real-life family

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No 52 Upper Clanbrassil Street, Dublin. Was this the birthplace of Leopold Bloom? (Photograph: Patrick Comerford) Patrick Comerford The ...
21 June 2023

‘O commemorate me with no hero-courageous
Tomb – just a canal-bank seat for the passer-by’

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Patrick Kavanagh’s bench by John Coll at Wilton Terrace on the Grand Canal, between Baggot Street Bridge and Leeson Street Bridge, Dublin (P...
18 June 2023

Did Joyce confuse Athos and Argos
when naming the dog in ‘Ulysses’?

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Docheiariou Monastery on Mount Athos … but why is Bloom’s dog named Athos? (Photograph: Patrick Comerford) Patrick Comerford Over the pa...
16 June 2023

A Bloomsday odyssey
in Dublin in search of
a synagogue for
the Bloom family

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The Adelaide Road Synagogue of the Dublin Hebrew Congregation opened in 1892 and closed in 1999 … one of two Dublin synagogues named by Jame...