The Ulysses Guide: Tours through Joyce's Dublin - Softcover

Nicholson, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1835940161 ISBN 13: 9781835940167

Publisher: New Island Books, 2025

Synopsis

Now updated for the 2025 streetscape, The Ulysses Guide: Tours Through Joyce’s Dublin is an essential resource for readers of James Joyce’s Ulysses.

The Ulysses Guide: Tours Through Joyce’s Dublin is an essential resource for readers of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Following the novel’s eighteen episodes through their original locations, it recreates the Dublin of 1904 against the backdrop of today’s streetscape.

First published in 1988 and updated here for 2025 to reflect new Joycean research and changes that have taken place in the continued evolution of Dublin city, The Ulysses Guide is a beloved companion to Joyce’s masterpiece and a classic of Irish literary criticism.

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About the Author

Robert Nicholson was born and lives in Dublin. He studied English language and literature at Trinity College, and from 1978 until his recent retirement was the curator of the James Joyce Museum at the Joyce Tower in Sandycove. He was also curator at the Dublin Writers Museum in Parnell Square. The Ulysses Guide: Tours Through Joyce's Dublin was first published in 1988, establishing him as an authority on the locations of Joyce’s novel, and in 2007 he wrote and presented a DVD for Arts Magic, James Joyce’s Dublin: The Ulysses Tour. He is a founder member of the James Joyce Cultural Centre as well as a former chairman of the James Joyce Institute of Ireland. He is a regular contributor to The James Joyce Broadsheet.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Island Books
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1835940161
• ISBN 13: 9781835940167
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248