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Thursday, January 29, 2009
'Dublin's Da Vinci Code'
Dublin Castle has a lot of history and is a very important historical sight in Dublin. However, it (and its environs)have a couple of aspects, which are mystery/esoteric related. So hear about them with me and maybe one will have to start a mini 'Da Vinci Code of Dublin'.
On my tours, there is always something different, and the above is such an example...
'The famous soup kitchen of Merrion Square'
On my Walking tours of Dublin, we pass through Merrion Square Park (one of Dublin's Georgian Squares); hear about how the Park was inextricably linked during the Great Irish Famine of the 1840's with a French Chef and his Soup Kitchen of the time! Quirkiness is never far away when one is narrating the story of Dublin!
'Haunted sights and buildings of Dublin'
On my historical and literary tours in Ireland's capital city, I take people to hidden places; one example of such hidden places are haunted sights.
The list of haunted sights ranges from a Library, houses of a Gothic writer and a revolutionary patrio to a park! Small wonder, Dublin has a charm of its own and has a special pedigree. Also hear about Gothic writers who specialised in books with ghosts and hauntings as their theme, and how the vampire of Stoker's Dracula may have its roots in Gaelic mythology!
'Wonders of Hidden Ireland'
In an untouched, largely unknown part of Co Mayo, West of Ireland, there are some hidden gems of interest for the Mythology, ancient history and history buff.
From Cong to Ballinrobe, includes the Abbey, in which the famous Cross of Cong was commissioned; one has the largest Cairn (mound of stones) in Connacht; was the source of the word 'Boycott' entering the English language itself (based on a real, historical event), and contains one of the most intriquing monuments in Ireland - 'The Gods of the Neale' monument.
I will bring you there and bring the land of lakes, myth, raindrops and rainbow to life!
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Irish - most revolutionary writer of the 20th century!
The novel, Ulysees published in 1922, has been claimed to have changed the face of literature and to have revolutionised the novel in the 20th Century. The book is set on the day of June 16, 1904 and chronicles a day in the life of Leopold Bloom - a Jew - as he goes wandering around his native Dublin, much akin to the Greek epic, The Odyssey of Ulyssees (Odysseus) from whom the novel takes its name.
Joyce through the voice of Bloom, outlines the history of the Irish race, Ireland, Dublin, its streets, its sites, the commercial nexus of the city, its pulse, its epicentre, its veins and arteries; in essence every component and part of the fabric of Dublin - of its topography - in voluminous detail. James Joyce's research and erudition is truly awesome (he studied the old ‘Thom's Directories' and detailed maps for years, which gave him this colossal knowledge). colloquialisms.
Herein lies the power and the influence of Ulysses: Joyce changed fundamentally the structure of the novel, he used no punctuation, to give it an uninterrupted flow; the wordplay and punning is infinite, done in a totally unique way. To cite but one example, Bloom breaks up the word Castile into cast steel. It's these innovative verbalisings, fusions of linguistic expressions and colloquialisms, its encyclopaedic knowledge, which makes it one of the most influential novels that literature has ever been bequeathed. All that one ever wanted to know about Dublin and indeed Ireland, its history, its people, its culture, its idiosyncracies, its charms, its contradictions, its betrayals, its heartaches, can be found here narrated through the medium of Leopold Bloom in one solitary day.
Small wonder that June 16, has been immortalised in the annual calendar as ‘Bloomsday'. Ulysees is totally unique, a pioneering work in English literature produced by an Irish writer in exile, which contains a wealth of information, linguistic flair, a descriptive genius, an intricate awareness of the layout of Dublin, its heartbeats, its resonances, its good and bad, its charm. James Joyce gave the world a modern odyssey of his native Dublin.
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Tours by Roibeard McElroy
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