Bloomsday

Bloomsday is the 16th of June, during which throngs of people follow in the footsteps of Leopold Bloom, the main character from James Joyce's Ulysses. We won't be here on the 16th, so I followed much of the route on my own yesterday, which served to take me through a good amount of Dublin as well as give me the right to check that obligatory task off the list.

The only thing that isn't terribly impressive about the walk is most of the streets are non-descript and don't hold any significance in and of themselves. There are however a few landmarks along the walk. One is Sweny's, a Chemist from whom Leopold buys lemon soap. Another is a railway overpass under which Leopold reads a letter from his love interest, after which he enters a church, which can be accessed through the small gate to the left of the overpass.

The picture below is the inside of the church, in which Leopold spent a short time followed by a stop in Davy Byrnes, a pub in which he had lunch and a drink, as did I.