The Bloom

A Bloomsday Meditation
June 16, 1904 / June 16, 2026

Dublin, June 16, 1904

GLASNEVIN CEMETERY * | PHOENIX | PARK BROADSTONE| * STATION | \ * | \ / | CABMAN'S / SHELTER *--AMIENS STREET | STATION | * BARNEY | / KIERNAN'S * / | / ORMOND*FREEMAN'S HOTEL | JOURNAL | | FOUR * *NATIONAL COURTS / LIBRARY | DAVY *-------* TRINITY BYRNE'S COLLEGE | *WESTLAND ROW STATION | 7 ECCLES*--------*MARTELLO STREET SANDYMOUNT TOWER STRAND * DUBLIN BAY ~~~~~

The Stations of Bloom

7 Eccles Street - Home. Where Bloom wakes, cooks kidney, returns with Stephen, goes to bed beside Molly. (The actual house was demolished in 1967; the door is preserved in the James Joyce Centre.)

Westland Row Post Office - Where Bloom collects Martha Clifford's letter under the name Henry Flower.

Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place - "Sweet lemony wax." Bloom buys his lemon soap. (Still a Joyce shrine today.)

Glasnevin Cemetery - Prospect Cemetery. Paddy Dignam's funeral. O'Connell's grave. The caretaker John O'Connell. "How many! All these here once walked round Dublin."

Freeman's Journal, Prince's Street - The newspaper offices. "Aeolus" with its headlines. (Destroyed in the 1916 Rising.)

Davy Byrne's, Duke Street - "Moral pub." Gorgonzola sandwich and glass of burgundy. "Nice wine it is." (Still open, still serving Bloom's lunch on Bloomsday.)

National Library, Kildare Street - Stephen's Shakespeare theory. "A man of genius makes no mistakes."

Ormond Hotel, Ormond Quay - "Sirens." Bronze by gold. The piano. Simon's song. (The bar is now a pub called "The Ormond".)

Barney Kiernan's, Little Britain Street - "Cyclops." The Citizen. The dog Garryowen. "Love... I mean the opposite of hatred."

Sandymount Strand - Stephen walks in "Proteus." Bloom watches Gerty in "Nausicaa." The tide, the shells, the clouds.

Holles Street Maternity Hospital - "Oxen of the Sun." Mina Purefoy gives birth. Prose itself is born.

Nighttown (Mabbot Street) - The red light district. Bella Cohen's brothel. "Circe." Hallucination and transformation.

The Liffey

The river Anna Liffey flows through Dublin and through Joyce's work - it becomes Anna Livia Plurabelle in Finnegans Wake. "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay..."

and yes I said yes I will Yes.