James Joyce's Ulysses: A Photo Tour of Dublin

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7. Aeolus

8. Lestrygonians

9. Scylla and Charybdis

10. Wandering Rocks

11. Sirens

12. Cyclops

13. Nausicaa

14. Oxen of the Sun

15. Circe

16. Eumaeus

17. Ithaca

18. Penelope

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James Joyce's Ulysses: A Dublin Tour
7. Aeolus

IN THE HEART OF THE HIBERNIAN METROPOLIS

    Before Nelson's pillar trams slowed, shunted, changed trolley started for Blackrock, Kingstown and Dalkey, Clonskea, Rathgar and Terenure, Palmerston park and upper Rathmines, Sandymount, Green Rathmines, Ringsend, and Sandymount Tower, Harold's Cross. The hoarse Dublin United Tramway Company's timekeeper bawled them off:
     --Rathgar and Terenure!
     --Come on, Sandymount Green! (112)

Three views of the area in front of the General Post Office in O'Connell Street. Nelson's Pillar is no longer standing, after being blown up by the IRA in 1966. In its place is the Dublin Spire, a tapering 120-metre column of reflective metal.

THE WEARER OF THE CROWN

Under the porch of the general post office shoeblacks called and polished. Parked in North Prince's street His Majesty's vermilion mailcars, bearing on their sides the royal initials, E. R., received loudly flung sacks of letters, postcards, lettercards, parcels, insured and paid, for local, provincial, British and overseas delivery. (112)

	The offices of the Freeman have today been absorbed into the Irish Independent, on Middle Abbey Street, just off O'Connell Street.			A bevy of scampering newsboys rushed down the steps, scamering in all directions, yelling, their white papers fluttering. Hard after them Myles Crawford appeared on the steps, his hat aureoling his scarlet face, talking with J. J. O'Molloy. --Come along, the professor cried, waving his arm. He set off again to walk by Stephen's side. (140)

Scene: The Newspaper

Hour: 12 noon

Organ: Lungs

Art: Rhetoric

Colour: Red

Symbol: Editor

Technic: Enthymemic

Correspondences:

Aeolus: Crawford

Incest: Journalism

Floating Island: Press

GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS

Grossbooted draymen rolled barrels dullthudding out of Prince's stores and bumped them up on the brewery float. On the brewery float bumped dullthudding barrels rolled by grossbooted draymen out of Prince's stores. (112)

     --What's that? Myles Crawford said with a start. Where are the other two gone?
     --Who? the professor said, turning. They're gone round to the Oval for a drink. Paddy Hooper is there with Jack Hall. Came over last night.
     --Come on then, Myles Crawford said. Where's my hat? (125)

      --Gentlemen, Stephen said. As the next motion on the agenda paper may I suggest that the house do now adjourn?
     --You take my breath away. Is it not perchance a French compliment? Mr O'Madden Bourke asked. 'Tis the hour, methinks, when the winejug, metaphorically speaking, is most grateful in Ye ancient hostelry.
     --That it be and hereby is resolutely resolved. All who are in favour say ay, Lenehan announced. The contrary no. I declare it carried. To which particular boosing shed...? My casting vote is: Mooney's. (138)

The Oval is just a short walk down Middle Abbey Street from the newspaper offices. The site of the Mooney, continuing across O'Connell Street to Lower Abbey Street, is now part of a bank, but the original name can still be seen in the stonework.

EXIT BLOOM

--I'm just running round to Bachelor's walk, Mr Bloom said, about this ad of Keyes's. Want to fix it up. They tell me he's round there in Dillon's. (124)

William's Row, now Bachelor's Row, is a tiny laneway opposite the Oval in Middle Abbey Street, leading down to Bachelor's Walk by the Liffey (you can make it out at the end of the lane in the larger photo). Dillon's is the auction room, outside which, at the beginning of the next chapter, Bloom will see Stephen's sister Dilly, and suspect that she is having to sell off more of the furniture to keep the family fed.

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