Explore the North Inner City in the footsteps of James Joyce this Bloomsday, Tuesday, 16th June at 3.30pm. Historian Hugo McGuinness will guide you through the Nighttown (aka Monto), the name given to the old red light district in Dublin. This area was enclosed by Talbot, Amiens, Gardiner and Gloucester (now Seán McDermott) Streets.
Nighttown is a leisurely stroll through the streets and people who influenced and informed James Joyce’s recreation of Dublin’s North Inner City in the Circe, Eumaeus, and Oxen of the Sun chapters of Ulysses. Drawing on the 1904 edition of Thoms Directory, we will explore and explain the locations chosen by Joyce while also investigating just why the legendary Monto District was so infamous.
The event is organised by the Five Lamps Arts Festival as part of the Dublin North East Inner City Walking Tours collection.
Meeting Point: Talbot Street beside Grainger’s Pub, near Connolly Station
Duration: Approx. 90 minutes approximately
Tickets are €20.