Between Two Roaring Worlds: A Wandering Rocks Journey

The James Joyce Institute of Ireland is proud to lead its annual pre-Bloomsday walk on Sunday, June 8th at 2pm. This year’s walk, “Between Two Roaring Words: A Wandering Rocks Journey,” will start at the upper Castleyard Gate of Dublin Castle beside City Hall. The walk follows various sections of the Wandering Rocks episode of Ulysses, involving on-location readings and dramatisations It will proceed down Parliament Street to Essex Street, and via Crampton’s Court and Sycamore Street to Temple Bar and Merchant’s Arch, finishing up on the north quays near the site of the Ormond Hotel.

The walk will be conducted by Robert Nicholson, author of The Ulysses Guide: Tours Through Joyce’s Dublin and Secretary of The James Joyce Centre Board of Directors. Nicholson will be accompanied by members of the James Joyce Institute of Ireland. Bring a copy of Ulysses if you have one.

The tour is approximately two hours long and open to the public. No booking required.

Image: Suzanne Freeman, ‘Wandering Rocks,’ from Ulysses: An Odyssey