On my last visit to Dublin, with Steve, we suddenly found ourselves at the Wax Museum in Dublin. After visiting Trinity College to view the Book of Kells, and having an enormous lunch at O'Neills,
(only in Ireland do you get potatoes with your potatoes!) we had time to use before we could check into Barnacles, so we used our discount from the Dublin Hop on Hop Off bus to check out the wax museum.
It was very entertaining. They start you out in the Writer's Room, where sat James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Peter Kavanaugh, Samuel Beckett and Brendan Behan.
Some of the figures appeared strangely real.
Now I have been fascinated with Irish writers for awhile. I picked up Ulysses at the library, but didn't have any time to actually sit down with it and read. In college we touched on the subject of Joyce and Ulysses. I have always wanted to actually read the book. So while walking along a street in Galway, I drug Steve into a bookstore. I found a paperback of Ulysses for 3 Eruos and while perusing the store I also bought a biography of a journalist (man) who spent a year living on the Aran Island of Inis Mor. Now after visting that island, i just had to purchase this book also. Am I the only person who goes to Ireland and brings back books?
Our last day in Dublin we were signed up for the Literary Pub Crawl. Now I am here to say this is well worth the effort. We stopped in at Davey Byrnes pub for supper and a drink before we checked in at The Duke to begin the pub crawl. I was going to order a Gorgonzola sandwich, but they were out, so I had a bowl of soup and brown bread. Now the pub crawl also ends at Davey Byrnes pub (after a stop at O'Neills and the Strand) and we learned that James Joyce frequented Davey Byrnes, while writing Ulysses, eating a gorgonzola sandwich, he set a scene in Davey Byrnes pub.
So now I really need to sit down and read the book. I believe I will have time this fall, when I can sit in front of a fire in the fireplace with a cup of tea and read.
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