James Joyce Statue - Earl Street, Dublin, Ireland
N 53° 20.994 W 006° 15.587
29U E 682386 N 5914695
The Irish have a sense of humour and many of the statues have an alternative name. For example, Molly Malone is known as 'the tart with the cart' and this statue, of Joyce, is known as 'the prick with the stick'.
Waymark Code: WMFW32
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Date Posted: 12/06/2012
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The Tourist Information Dublin website
[visit
link] tells us:
"James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13
January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most
influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th
century.
Joyce is best known for Ulysses
(1922), a landmark novel which perfected his stream of consciousness technique
and combined nearly every literary device available in a modern re-telling of
The Odyssey.
The statue in Earl Street, Dublin
was sculpted by Marjorie Fitzgibbon and unveiled in 1990."
The Visit Dublin website [visit
link] also tells us:
"This life-size bronze, crafted by
Marjorie Fitzgibbon, was installed in 1990 and commemorates one of the giants of
20th century literature. James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882 and by 1904,
with only two more short visits to Dublin, was a self-imposed exile in Europe
variously settling in Italy, France and Switzerland. His most acclaimed book,
Ulysses, captures, hour-by-hour, the lives of people and the scenes on Dublin’s
streets over a period of just one day, June 16, 1904. Now every year, on the
same date, droves of people, many in period costume, follow in the footsteps of
the main character, Leopold Bloom, through the streets of the city and visit the
pubs and hotels associated with the novel. Joyce died in 1941 and is buried in
Zurich."
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