Drumcondra Joycean Jaunt - 2023
Schedule
Fri Jun 16 2023 at 10:00 am to 01:45 pm
Location
Drumcondra | Dublin, DN
Admirers of the genuine genius will honour him in Drumcondra on Bloomsday
About this Event
Joyce's final words are reputed to have been "Does nobody understand?" We cannot guarantee that nobody will understand anything or that anybody will understand nothing, but readings will have been delivered, poems will have been recited, songs will have been sung, music will have been played, sculpture will have been displayed and jollification will have been the order of the day as we traverse Lower and Upper Drumcondra on the morning/early afternoon of 16th June Bígí Linn!
Proceedings will commence at Barbara Ward Clonliffe & Croke Park Community Centre, Distillery Road -10:00am (light refreshments will be served).
The National Council for the Blind of Ireland (NCBI) on Whitworth Road, will host us at 11:00am. From there, we will jaunt through Lower Drumcondra, stopping at a number of locations before concluding in the Quadrangle at St Patrick's DCU at 1:45pm.
To whet appetites, some local information ......
Millbourne Avenue
#2, Millbourne Ave, now James Joyce Court, across from Drumcondra Library was home to the Joyces in 1894. Down the avenue, St Patrick’s Boys’ National School was established in the same year.
Drumcondra Hospital (now NCBI), Whitworth Road
James’s father Stanislaus died here on 29th December 1931, his final home was nearby, at 25 Claude Road.
Millmount Place
“Pineapple rock, lemon platt, butter scotch. A sugarsticky girl shovelling scoopfuls of creams for a christian brother. Some school treat. Bad for their tummies. Lozenge and comfit manufacturer to His Majesty the King. God. Save. Our. Sitting on his throne sucking red jujubes white.” - Lestrygonians
"The Confectioners Hall" of Lemon & Co had a factory at Millmount Place
"Old" Drumcondra
George’s Church on Temple Street was once described as "New St. George’s Church, Drumcondra". Boundaries and street names subsequently changed e.g. Dorset Street was once known as Drumcondra Lane
"A creak and a dark whirr in the air high up. The bells of George's church. They tolled the hour: loud dark iron.”- Calypso
Botanic Avenue
#4, Lismore Terrace (now incorporated into Botanic Avenue) was home to Miss Mina Kennedy
“Bronze by gold heard the hoof-irons, steely ringing – The barmaids in the Ormond hotel, Miss Douce (bronze) and Miss Kennedy (gold), hear the viceregal procession” - Sirens
Clonturk Park
"that she would never forget her hero boy who went to his death with a song on his lips as if he were but going to a hurling match in Clonturk Park." - Cyclops
Lower Drumcondra
“It is called a tundish in Lower Drumcondra, said Stephen laughing, where they speak the best English.”- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Upper Drumcondra
Restaurant 104 on Upper Drumcondra Road was previously a Youkstetter’s butchers shop
"In Youkstetter’s, the pork-butcher’s, Father Conmee observed pig’s puddings, white and black and red, lying neatly curled in tubes.“ – Wandering Rocks referring to Youkstetter’s sister shop on North Strand
Other Local References
'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man‘’
- Bridge over Tolka - Statue Mary (p162)
- Clonliffe Road (p80)
- Tolka River (p162)
'Dubliners' – Clay
- Canal bridge Binns Bridge where Drumcondra Rd Lwr crosses over Royal Canal
- St Brigid's Rd, Drumcondra
Where is it happening?
Drumcondra, Drumcondra, Dublin, IrelandEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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